Jay Jasper
Senior Mechanical Engineer at Agility Robotics
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJay Jasper is a senior mechanical engineer based in Minneapolis with 12 years of hands-on experience designing mobile robots and robotic subsystems for organizations from startups to NASA JPL. Trained in aerospace at Purdue and holding an MS in mechanical engineering from CMU, he bridges system architecture and detailed mechanical design across mobility, manipulation, extreme-environment hardware, and custom actuators. At JPL he contributed to legged quadrupeds, snake robots, Europa lander sampling tech, and thermal and explosion-safe designs, and now leads mechanical efforts at Agility Robotics. He’s equally comfortable in CAD, the machine shop, and the lab bench, and often dives into motor selection, firmware and thermal design rather than limiting himself to pure structure. Known for turning research-stage concepts into flight- and field-ready hardware, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical prototyping and forensic iteration. Outside work he has a track record of mentoring teams and shipping competition and mission-class rovers, including Lunar XPrize and CubeRover efforts.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
3.95, 3.95 at The Blake School (HS)Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with distinction, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.89, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with distinction, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.89 at Purdue UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.00, Master of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 4.00 at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (32)
simulator9
robotics9
deterministic9
stack-based9
dynamics9
physics9
robot-simulator9
mujoco9
robotics-simulation9
physics-engine8
mechanics8
bullet-physics8
interpreter8
programming-language8
simulation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jay-j/golden-sun-manip
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:64 commits, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
jay-j/blender-robotics-utilities
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 58 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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