Summary
Sophie Diehl is an electrical engineering manager based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience designing embedded hardware, PCBA layouts, firmware in C, and Python tooling for reliability testing and documentation. At Sofar Ocean she leads the EE team and drives hardware for ocean sensing platforms like Bristlemouth and Spotter, having led the cellular-connectivity effort and Spotter V3 development. Her background includes power electronics, battery charging/monitoring, and field bring-up from Makani with hands-on testing in California, Hawaii, and Norway, reflecting a balance of lab rigor and real-world deployment. She pairs technical depth with practical project instincts—prototyping automated PCBA test systems and developing fault-mitigation firmware—while cultivating interests in project management, hardware fabrication, and languages.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology