# Rich Muñoz

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richmuoz

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google DeepMind
Jan 2018 – Present
- Tech Lead for Gemini spatial understanding
- Tech Lead for vision and language (VLM) object detection models across Google & Alphabet 
- Gemini core: vision, large scale pre-training (LSP), post-training 
- Image Understanding
- Mobile Vision 
- C++ mentor 
- Python mentor

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Eight
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
- Tech Lead for production computer vision search engine based on embedding retrieval (Scala, Python, C++) including GPU-enabled microservices on Kubernetes.
- Research into image embeddings for E-Commerce applications (TensorFlow, Caffe)
- Tech Lead for automated training pipeline to increase team velocity.

### Deep Learning Intern @ Motorola Solutions
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Schaumburg, IL
- Object detection deep learning (Theano, TensorFlow, Caffe)
- Automated training of models using AWS EC2 spot instances, S3, and SQS.
- Deployed models on an NVIDIA Jetson TX1 to support object detection predictions at the edge.

### Machine Learning Research Assistant @ New York Genome Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
- Research into predicting ancestry from genetic data. Over 10,000 users in the first three months.
- Also owned the database, server, and backend data ingestion pipeline.

### Senior Associate Engineering Consultant @ ENVIRON
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Arlington, VA
- Statistical modeling of chemical environmental, demographic, and health data for expert witnesses and trial exhibits.
- Owner of R and C++ packages for chemical mass transfer.
- Managed teams collecting and analyzing data related to emissions reconstruction and evaluation of cleanup remedies.

### Associate Engineering Consultant @ ENVIRON
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Arlington, VA
- Exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling with R.
- Assessment of expert witness opinions. 
- Expert testimony support at counsel's table.
- Knowledge management databases owner and automated solutions evangelist, training dozen of employees.

### Chemical Engineering Design Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Ithaca, NY
TA for capstone senior chemical engineering design project.

### Research Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Ithaca, New York
Muñoz, Richard and Jason Winchester. 2011. “Expression of Bcl-2 in Escherichia coli and an attempt at selection of intrabodies targeting Bcl-2 via the FLI-TRAP assay.” Thesis, Cornell University. Cornell University Library.

### Technical Laboratory Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Ithaca, NY
- Recombinant cell cultures, PCR, gel electrophoresis
- Solutions prep

### Life Sciences Investor Relations Intern @ Burns McClellan
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | New York, NY
- Biotech and financial anlaysis
- Clinical trial & earnings press releases


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science, Machine Learning Track
Columbia University

### MEng in Chemical Engineering
Cornell University

### BS in Chemical Engineering
Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rmunoz12

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Last updated: 2026-04-12