Summary
Yishai Silver is a software engineer and founder with 8 years of experience applying AI and robotics to real-world problems, currently building systems at Anduril Industries in San Diego. He has led ML and robotics efforts across startups and defense contractors, from vision-based SLAM for accessibility and autonomous tractors to RL-based air combat and automatic target recognition. A UC San Diego MS/BS in Computer Science, he combines research-grade ML skills with hands-on embedded and systems engineering—examples include a USB Wi‑Fi quiz device for low-resource classrooms and nerf-gun-playing robots. His background shows a pattern of shipping end-to-end products that bridge academia, startups, and government contracts, and he’s comfortable founding ventures as well as integrating into larger engineering organizations. Notably, his projects often focus on safety-critical perception and autonomy applied in unconventional domains, reflecting both technical depth and a taste for high-impact, experimental work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Spanish, American Sign Language