Thomas Godden
Hardware Engineer at Physical Intelligence
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Godden is a hardware engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience designing electronics, firmware, and low-level control systems for mobile and robotic platforms. He has progressed from mechanical and electrical assembly roles to leading electronics architecture and firmware development across multiple product generations at PipeDream Labs and now Physical Intelligence. Trained at Imperial College London (MEng in Engineering Design), he blends formal control theory and practical fabrication—having written joint controllers for walking robots and redesigned teaching materials for online engineering math. Equally comfortable in hardware and software, he focuses on “hardware and software for things that move,” shipping mechatronic systems that balance robustness with field-upgradeable firmware. Outside of work he documents projects and engineering thoughts on his website and Twitter, signaling an active maker mindset beyond formal publications.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Design, Master of Engineering - MEng, Engineering Design at Imperial College London
Github Skills (33)
pixel9
mathematics9
planning8
robot8
moveit8
pixel-art8
robotics7
open-source7
depthai7
motion-planning7
sampling6
svd5
webapp5
least-squares5
python5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LegoYoda112/smart_display
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Cleaning rota etc. for new flat. Very messy prototype code, view at your own risk.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
cleaningprototyperiskrota
LegoYoda112/BLDC_Driver
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Firmware, Documentation (and eventually hardware) for a low cost brushless motor controller.
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
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