# Richard Zhu > Software Engineer at Bot Auto Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/richardzhu Interested in autonomous systems, machine perception, and startups. Reachable at rz2123@nyu.edu or by LinkedIn DM. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Bot Auto Jan 2025 – Present Autonomous trucking Data and ML infrastructure ### Software Engineer @ Lucid Motors Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Vehicle communications Middleware, systems, networking ### Perception Software Engineer @ Zipline Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Acoustic detect and avoid Synthetic audio simulation for SELD ### Research Assistant @ New York University Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Large-scale LiDAR map optimization ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Display Ads infrastructure ### Data Scientist @ Tau Motors Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Electric motor simulation and modeling ### Machine Learning Engineer @ ObjectSecurity Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 RF signal anomaly detection Synthetic data generation ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science New York University ### High School Diploma Cupertino High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richardwzhu --- Source: https://flows.cv/richardzhu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/richardzhu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05