# Pierric Gimmig

> Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pierric

Senior Software Engineer with strong math skills and interest for elegantly solving difficult problems.  Expertise in physics simulation and character animation.  In-depth knowledge of C++.  Low level optimization.  Excellent understanding of hardware.  Electrical Engineering background.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot @ Tesla
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino

### Consulting Software Engineer @ Epic Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Montreal, Canada Area

### Senior System Programmer @ Warner Bros. Games Montreal
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 | Montreal
Batman: Arkham Origins
 System programming

### Technical Team Leader @ CAE Healthcare
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Montreal
Surgical Simulation
 Team leader of engineers and artists working on a laparoscopic simulator for appendectomy
 Real time suture thread simulation interacting with deformable FEM models
 Fluid simulation (SPH) interacting with deformable boundaries on GPU using CUDA

### Physics Programmer @ Team Bondi
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
L.A. Noire ( PS3 )
 Ragdolls, character control, rigid body simulation, custom cloth simulation
 Inverse kinematics (foot fix up, reach)
 Animation compression and related pipeline and debugging tools
 In charge of all of Havok related tasks

### Animation/Physics Programmer @ Ubisoft Montreal
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Assassin's Creed ( 360, PS3 )
 Havok, ragdolls, character control
 Physics gameplay
 Procedural animation
 Real-time edge detection for climbing

Rainbow Six Vegas ( XBOX/PC )
 Refactoring of low-level animation system
 Implementation of breakable glass using PhysX PPU hardware

### Teacher Assistant @ École Polytechnique de Montréal
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
INF2701
 Teach, supervise and evaluate students and their work on OpenGL projects

### Intern Animation Programmer @ Kaydara
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004
MotionBuilder 6.0
 R&D internship working on the MotionBuilder character animation software


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pgimmig
- Portfolio: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/16/rixrover-is-the-cheap-rc-car-controlled-by-a-rather-more-expensi/
- Portfolio: http://www.polymtl.ca/carrefour/article.php?no=1942
- GitHub: https://github.com/pierricgimmig/orbitprofiler

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Last updated: 2026-04-12