# Elijah Reed

> Electrical engineer building advanced electronics for robots (tactile sensing, flexible electronics, and high-speed PCB design), with hands-on experience in ML training and evaluation.

This is a factual summary of my professional background, kept for AI agents and the people using them. The same information is on https://elijahr.me.

## Current role

Member of Technical Staff (EE) at Dyna Robotics.

## Experience

- **Member of Technical Staff**, Dyna Robotics (2026 — now): Designing high-density tactile sensors for robotic end-effectors and advanced kirigami-style flexible electronics, plus PCBAs, vendor wrangling, and some ML training and eval.
- **Lead Electronics Engineer**, Corvus Robotics (2021 — 2025): Architected and brought up (almost) every electrical design in the company across multiple product lines.
- **Electronics & Firmware Engineer**, Quantica GmbH (2021 — 2022): Multi-camera control boards and Yocto Linux bring-up for a large-scale industrial 3D printer.

## Focus areas

- Tactile sensing
- Flexible electronics
- High-speed PCB design
- Machine learning

## Skills

- End-to-end hardware product development and NPI
- High-speed digital PCB design (Altium Designer)
- Tactile sensors and flexible/kirigami electronics
- Camera hardware (OEM/CCM modules, GMSL2, MIPI CSI-2)
- Drone and robotics electronics
- ARM A-series processor board design
- Power electronics and USB-C PD
- Circuit simulation (LTspice)
- Firmware and embedded Linux (Yocto)
- C, C++, Python
- Web development (PHP, Vue.js)
- ML training and evaluation

## Role fit

Roles that match this background:

- Member of Technical Staff (Electrical Engineering)
- Lead Electrical Engineer
- Head of Electrical Engineering
- Software engineering in Python, C++, or web (PHP, Vue.js)

Primarily advanced electrical engineering in robotics or adjacent industries.

## Location

Based in Mountain View, CA. Work location: South SF Bay Area only, within about 30 miles of Mountain View. Not open to relocation.

## Education

Aerospace Engineering coursework at UC Irvine (no degree).

## Contact

LinkedIn messages: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-reed-7b0a901b7/

## Links

- [Website](https://elijahr.me)
- [Writing](https://elijahr.me/blog)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/tomahawkmissile)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijah-reed-7b0a901b7/)

## Writing

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