Jake Popham
Staff AI ML Engineer at Terra AI
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Popham is a Staff AI/ML Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade perception and generative models, now focused on simulating physical systems with generative AI at Terra AI. His background spans XR 3D perception at Google, multitask gaze and pupil tracking shipped on Quest Pro at Meta, and lightweight CV models for autonomous drone flight, giving him deep practical expertise from edge deployment to large-scale systems. He has led small teams delivering object detection and counting for aerial imagery in intelligence contexts and built ETL and ML pipelines across diverse tasks like knowledge graphs, topic modeling, and image captioning. Trained originally in physics and materials science, he brings a strong physics-first intuition to ML problems, which informs his approach to physically grounded generative models. Known as a research-minded engineer on GitHub, he blends experimental rigor with product-focused delivery to move novel models into real-world applications. Based in South San Francisco, he combines academic curiosity with hands-on engineering across startup and hyperscale environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Materials Science, Master's Degree Materials Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (36)
python10
statistics10
machine-learning10
3d-reconstruction10
data-science9
photogrammetry9
3d-graphics9
scikit-learn9
3d9
gpu9
deep-learning9
data-analysis9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
computer-vision8
gpu-acceleration8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jpopham91/jpopham91.github.io
Aug 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:123 pushes in 7 years 9 months
jekyllsolid
jpopham91/berserker
Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:61 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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