Maria Salatino
Senior Cryogenic And Mechanical Engineer at Rigetti Computing
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolMaria Salatino is a Senior Cryogenic and Mechanical Engineer with nearly two decades of experience designing and building instrumentation for cryogenic microwave telescopes, spanning nanofabrication, PCB design, mechanical engineering, and finite element analysis. Based in Palo Alto, she has transitioned from academic research roles at Sapienza, Princeton, and Stanford to industry work at Rigetti Computing, bringing hands-on expertise in integrating delicate superconducting components into robust cryogenic systems. Her background in experimental cosmology (PhD) gives her deep familiarity with instrument-level requirements and system validation under extreme conditions. Colleagues rely on her rare blend of precision laboratory skills and practical mechanical design to move complex experiments from prototype to deployable hardware. Notably, she has maintained collaborative international research ties while driving applied engineering solutions for quantum and microwave instrumentation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Astronomy Physics Astrophysics Experimental Cosmology, PhD in Astronomy Physics Astrophysics Experimental Cosmology at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French, svedese
Github Skills (4)
dictionary7
meta-analysis5
simulation4
modeling3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
smsimon/systematics_dictionary
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 16 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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MariaJK/systematics_dictionary
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 days
dictionarysystematics
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