Nikhil Jali
Staff System Engineer at Zoox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Jali is a Staff System Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and delivering complex embedded and controls systems across automotive, aerospace, industrial and consumer robotics domains. He blends deep controls expertise (SysID, MPC, nonlinear control, estimation) with hands-on hardware and firmware design—schematics, PCB, multi-core real-time software, RTOS and power electronics—taking products from concept to volume manufacturing. At Zoox and prior employers he led cross-functional teams, architected high-voltage power and battery systems for eVTOL and automotive applications, and drove OTA/telemetry platforms for fleet management. He pairs rigorous systems engineering and functional safety practice (ISO26262, ISO13849, FMEA/HARA) with pragmatic project leadership and ALM toolchain setup. Less obvious: he has repeatedly moved between deep R&D (novel sensing and estimator patents) and productization, comfortable both inventing control algorithms and validating them on production hardware. His background in control systems (MS, Purdue) and breadth of real-world integration make him a strong bridge between theory and manufacturable, safety-critical products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Control Systems, Master of Science (MS) Control Systems at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at RV College Of Engineering
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Github Skills (12)
platformio10
esp826610
arduino9
arduino-ide9
flash9
esp329
prototyping7
continuous-integration7
firmware7
continuous-deployment6
iot5
espressif5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NikhilMJ/Micro-Grid-Power-Management
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
ZeroUI/Scratch
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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