Mitchell Tilson
Senior Firmware Engineer at Zoox
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMitchell Tilson is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing embedded systems and low-level C/C++ firmware, currently working at Zoox in San Diego. His background spans medical devices at Abbott—where he built RTOS-based thermal control and low-level communication stacks—to consumer hardware firmware roles at Apple and autonomous vehicle firmware at Zoox. He excels at bridging hardware and software, with practical lab skills (oscilloscopes, soldering, DVMs) and a track record of implementing PID control, flash databases, and robust serial protocols. Known for shipping safety- and reliability-focused systems, he brings systems engineering rigor from his early defense contracting days through complex product development. A Virginia Tech electrical engineering graduate, he pairs deep embedded expertise with real-world test automation and manufacturing-focused firmware design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech
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Github contributions (5)
mtilson115/qc
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
mtilson115/quad_copter
Sep 2014 - Mar 2020
Contributions:160 commits, 138 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 7 months
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