Summary
Jonathan Alencar is a Senior R&D Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience designing and building atom-optic systems, including quantum motion sensors and atomic clocks. At AOSense he bridges optics, electronics, vacuum systems, and embedded software to take experiments from simulation to manufacturable hardware. His background blends physics research—developing Monte Carlo simulations, real-time visualizers, and laser alignment—with industry work on power-system modeling for eVTOL at NASA, showing an ability to span fundamental science and applied engineering. Comfortable in Python, embedded C, and system modeling, he frequently integrates hardware-in-the-loop solutions such as Arduino/Portenta controllers into automated experiments. He’s equally at home optimizing optical benches and writing control software, and is open to roles that leverage his multidisciplinary strengths across electrical, optical, and software engineering. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he has published system-level analysis for complex vehicles and translated that systems thinking into precision quantum instrumentation development.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Physics, Physics at Glendale Community College
Computer Science & Applied Physics, Computer Science & Applied Physics at Purdue University
Portuguese, English, Spanish