Brenton Salmi
Senior Hardware Design Engineer at Applied Physics Laboratory-UW
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton Salmi is a staff hardware development engineer in Seattle with nine years of hands-on electrical design experience delivering flight- and sea-proven systems for rockets, crewed capsules, experimental autonomous aircraft, and oceanographic platforms. He has repeatedly owned complex avionics and power systems from requirements through qualification — including multi-PCB flight computers, high-voltage subsea power distribution, and BVLOS satcom on Cessna platforms. At APL-UW he led low-power ocean sensor and pressure-balanced battery designs and established hiring and mentorship practices to scale the electrical team. Previously at SpaceX and Reliable Robotics he drove electrical architecture, manufacturability improvements, and survivability upgrades under extreme environments. He’s also a co-founder of an open-source amateur radio digital communications project (FaradayRF), blending aerospace rigor with community-driven RF innovation. Practical, systems-minded, and comfortable across analog, mixed-signal, and embedded Linux domains, he excels at turning field-driven challenges into robust, tested hardware.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
faraday9
nodejs7
firmware5
hardware3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
FaradayRF/Faraday-Firmware
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year
firmwarefaraday
kb1lqd/Faraday-Software
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:162 pushes, 36 branches in 3 months
nodejsfaraday
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