Summary
Cem Ersoz is a robotics software leader with 11 years of hands-on experience in autonomous navigation, behavior design, and systems engineering, currently serving as Director of Robotics SW at Simbe in San Francisco. He rose through roles at Simbe from intern to director, shaping robot navigation stacks and production-ready behaviors for real-world retail deployments. A Carnegie Mellon-trained computer scientist and roboticist, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical skills in embedded systems, PCB and mechanical prototyping, and ROS/C++ development. Cem is also a co-founder of Pin Traveler, applying his engineering curiosity to consumer travel apps—an unusual blend that highlights his product-minded approach to robotics. Known for shipping end-to-end solutions, he brings both research experience from national labs and a maker’s background designing and fabricating hardware-software systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science and Mathematics, High School Science and Mathematics at Hisar Schools
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Robotics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Turkish