Jacob Carver
Firmware Engineer at Zoox
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Carver is a firmware and embedded software engineer with nine years of experience designing reliable realtime systems and electronics, currently building firmware at Zoox in San Diego. He brings deep Embedded C and RTOS expertise alongside analog/digital hardware design and practical familiarity with C++, C#, Python, MATLAB, CMake and Verilog/FPGA workflows. His background spans startups and product companies—contributing firmware for genomic instruments at Singular Genomics and embedded systems at Digital Force—plus hands-on CNC and avionics experience from SDSU Rocket Project that sharpened his hardware-first mindset. Known for bridging low-level device constraints with higher-level tooling, he frequently translates complex hardware requirements into maintainable firmware architectures. Colleagues value his practical blend of board-level insight and software discipline, and his career shows a pattern of evolving responsibilities from shop floor machining to production-grade embedded firmware.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at San Diego State University
Github Skills (11)
freertos10
kernel10
git-clone10
svn10
sourceforge10
tcp3
rocket1
autopilot1
controller1
mavlink1
eagle1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SDSURocketProject/far-mars-avionics-pcb
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:56 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
karver8/stim300-imu-driver
Mar 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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