Chris St John
Principal Engineer - Autonomy Sensors at Motional
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris St John is a Principal Engineer specializing in autonomy sensors with three decades of hands-on experience designing automotive and commercial vision electronics. He leads cross-functional camera development—optics, CMOS image sensors, FPGA logic, and embedded firmware—bringing products from concept through production while balancing EMC, controlled-impedance PCB design, and system-level perception metrics. His career spans leadership roles at Motional and Argo AI and technical engagements at Intel and Sharp, giving him rare depth across OEM/Tier-1 relationships and high-level design flows for AI-enabled video processing. Known for translating image-quality testing and optical analysis into robust hardware and FPGA implementations, he routinely optimizes camera performance against perception and fusion requirements. Beyond engineering, he’s customer-facing and adept at aligning technical decisions with program delivery and regulatory needs. He combines a practical systems mindset with academic grounding (MS, Univ. of Michigan) and a track record of shipping production automotive vision systems.
4 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Michigan - Rackham Graduate SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kettering University
Github Skills (34)
infiniband10
freertos10
git-repository10
mcu10
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Chris-StJohn-Bose/zephyr
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:9 reviews, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 2 years 11 months
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
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