Jacob Zietek
Engineering Fellow at Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Zietek is an engineering fellow and robotics-focused machine learning engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building embodied AI and visuomotor systems. He’s been a first or early ML hire multiple times—co-leading robot foundation model work at Persona AI and shipping vision and VQA pipelines at Armada—plus he’s founded a stealth startup exploring scalable robot learning. Jacob’s work spans research and product: from training robot brains on real-world UR5e data and integrating gaze-grounded language, to building consumer-facing healthcare ML at Amazon and RL pipelines for autonomous systems at Shield AI. He combines hands-on model engineering with startup grit and VC exposure (now at Andreessen Horowitz), and has a track record of turning multimodal research prototypes into deployable systems. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to bridge academic rigour (Purdue research and TensorFlow Model Garden contributions) with fast-paced product development for humanoid tool use in heavy industry.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Farmingdale Senior High School
Polish, English, Italian
Github Skills (54)
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
vision-and-language9
robotics8
nodejs7
robotics-simulation7
pybullet7
foundation-models6
react6
multimodal6
machine-learning6
manipulation6
reinforcement-learning6
computer-vision5
api5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jacob-zietek/jacob-zietek
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
jacob-zietek/SyllabusStripper
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
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