Nicholas Charron
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Rivian
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Charron is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD in Robotics from the University of Waterloo and nine years of experience building end-to-end robotics and perception systems for AR/VR and field robotics. He led flagship dataset and tooling efforts at Meta Reality Labs—helping publish multiple Aria/Quest datasets and contributing one of the top open-source Aria libraries used by dozens of labs—then moved to production ML at Rivian. His strengths span computer vision, lidar-visual-inertial SLAM, sensor calibration, and scalable data pipelines, combined with hands-on system integration from hardware to deployed models. As a founder-CEO he translated research SLAM and defect-detection models into commercial inspection products, demonstrating an uncommon blend of research rigor and product delivery. Based in Palo Alto and working in the US as a Canadian, he brings both academic depth and practical engineering leadership to complex perception challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil & Mechatronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil & Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (45)
portable10
depth-estimation10
robotics10
utilities10
snow10
waypoint10
gps10
ieee10
robot10
localization10
lidar-data10
raycasting10
filter10
pangolin10
interaction10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nickcharron/coding_exercises
Nov 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
BEAMRobotics/libbeam
Jan 2019 - Feb 2023
public library for all internal software
Contributions:3 releases, 4 reviews, 521 commits in 4 years 1 month
public-libraryroboticsinternaloptimizationcomputer-vision
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