Summary
Marisa Pachuca is a systems integration engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building agile control systems for autonomous vehicles, currently advancing integration work at Rivian. An MIT-trained robotics specialist, she designs low-cost autonomy kits and has implemented collision avoidance, CANbus characterization, and multi-vehicle communication stacks for tractors, rovers, and drones. Her background spans both field robotics and software—shipping production controls at Farm(x), prototyping mapping solutions at Lyft, and contributing to marine and naval automation research at MIT. She blends electrical engineering rigor (ESD/EMC testing, GPIO timing analysis) with practical software delivery, showing a knack for squeezing latency out of embedded networks. Based in San Francisco, she brings a practical, systems-level perspective to autonomous mobility that emphasizes affordability and real-world robustness.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at East Peoria High School