Yanir Hirshberg
Sr. Hardware Systems Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanir Hirshberg is a senior hardware systems engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience designing robotics, autonomous vehicles, and consumer electronics. His career blends a cognitive science foundation and computational perception research with hands-on product engineering—from leading aerial product hardware at GoPro and Kespry to complex vehicle systems and gateways at NIO and large-scale hardware systems at Apple. He excels at taking concepts through schematic, layout, and production, and has repeatedly bridged firmware, cloud, and mechanical teams to deliver shipped products. Notably, Yanir brings a maker/entrepreneur mindset—cofounding hardware startups and launching Kickstarter products—so he pairs formal engineering rigor with unconventional, demo-driven innovation.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Cognitive Science at The University of Connecticut
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (6)
imp10
ethereum7
blockchain7
electrical-engineering6
power-systems5
energy-system4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
electricimp/reference
Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
Electric Imp Reference Code
Contributions:10 commits in 9 months
ethereumblockchainelectricimp
electricimp/examples
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Complete examples for Electric Imp-enabled products and projects
Contributions:5 commits in 20 days
electricelectrical-engineeringenergy-systemimppower-systems
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