Cameron Newton
Staff Software Engineer at Rivian
Vancouver, British Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Newton is a Staff Software Engineer at Rivian with nine years of experience designing and shipping embedded C/C++ systems for autonomy platforms. A UBC Engineering Physics graduate, he progressed rapidly from software engineer to technical lead roles across robotics and analytics startups before joining Rivian’s Palo Alto autonomy organization. He brings a strong hardware-software background—rooted in earlier mechanical and CAD roles—and a track record of taking prototype systems into production in safety-critical domains. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and cross-disciplinary collaboration, he balances low-level embedded constraints with higher-level system design to accelerate vehicle autonomy development.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering Physics at The University of British ColumbiaCAD/CADD Drafting and/or Design Technology/Technician, CAD/CADD Drafting and/or Design Technology/Technician at University of the Fraser ValleyScience Transfer, Science Transfer at Yukon College
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Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (5)
ubc-subbots/Object-Detection-Training
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
UBC Subbots Tensorflow object detection training repository
Contributions:11 PRs, 50 pushes, 17 branches in 6 months
tensorflow-object-detectionobject-detectiontrainingubctensorflow
ubc-subbots/Software_Challenge
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
The UBC Subbots Software Challenge!
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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