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Rai / Pujol

Hardware / firmware / robotics · Pittsburgh, PA

Raimon Pujol Vila

Robotics Systems Engineer

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CMU MRSD student with 4 years in automotive hardware, product design, system integration, and OEM delivery. Systems engineer on CMU Moon Miners (NASA Lunabotics); working an industry-sponsored video-to-policy humanoid capstone. Interests: humanoids, space robotics, climate, and wildfire mitigation.

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Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Open to relocation
Program
CMU MRSD
Class of 2028
Previously
Idneo (4 years)
Technical BD (West Coast)
Stack
ROS 2, C/C++, ESP32
Jetson, KiCad, SolidWorks

01/Resume

Concise CV for robotics systems roles.

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CMU Robotics Institute MRSD student with 4 years in automotive industry, hardware and product design, system integration, and OEM program delivery. Systems engineer on CMU Moon Miners (NASA Lunabotics); currently working on a industry-sponsored video-to-policy humanoid robot capstone. Interests: humanoids, space robotics, climate, and wildfire mitigation technologies.

Seeking Summer 2027 internship in robotics, ideally on humanoid or field robotics.

Pittsburgh, PA (open to relocation)raipujol19@gmail.com415.747.6681LinkedInHandshakeFull HTML resume

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Master of Science in Robotic Systems Development (MRSD). Focus: autonomy, control, systems engineering, robot learning. Coursework: Systems Engineering (16-650); Robot Mobility Air, Land and Sea (16-665); Robot Autonomy (16-662); Robot Learning (16-831); Manipulation, Estimation, & Control (16-642).

Pittsburgh, PA

May 2028

King's College London

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electrical Engineering & Management. First Class Honours. Teaching Assistant, Electronics Circuits (EC1/EC2), 2020-2021.

London, UK

June 2021

Experience

Idneo Technologies

February 2022 - Present

Electrical Engineer -> System Architect -> Technical Business Development and Project Manager (West Coast) · Barcelona / San Francisco

  • Architected 4+ embedded electromechanical systems from requirements to working prototype, defining sensing, actuation, compute, and power subsystems and converging mechanical, electronics, firmware, and design teams on shared interfaces.
  • Designed custom ESP32 control boards and wrote C/C++/Python firmware for sensor acquisition and actuator control; brought up PoC on NXP i.MX 6 and Renesas validation boards.
  • Delivered 5 full-scale electromechanical furniture prototypes for NEOM (Saudi Arabia) in 1 month, leading a 5-person mechanical, electronics, software, and design team; air-freighted, integrated, and commissioned all units on site for the Saudi Crown Prince.
  • Managed 50+ OEM engagements on the West Coast (Waymo, Zoox, Zipline, Cruise, Cobot, Ford, Lucid, Rivian, Karma, etc.), leading RFQ responses, requirements definition, and program scoping across engineering and commercial teams.
  • Won $25M+ in awarded contracts within 18 months, spanning volume manufacturing and NRE, by translating OEM system requirements into technical proposals and pricing.

Selected Projects

CMU MRSD Capstone · Nissan

September 2026 - Present

Electrical / Embedded Lead and Project Manager · Pittsburgh, PA

  • Teaching a Unitree G1 EDU a Nissan pre-trim pick-and-place task (interior trim / air duct, sub-3 kg) from factory video via VLA / imitation learning within a 5-person MRSD team.
  • Own robot-side electrical/embedded design: power, sensing, compute interfaces, and G1 hardware bring-up.
  • Manage 3 workstreams (VLA training, video curation, real-robot evaluation) across a 12-month program with Nissan as industry sponsor.
  • Deliver a live G1 demo of a policy pre-trained on factory video by November 2027 and a feasibility verdict on video vs teleoperation data.

CMU Moon Miners (NASA Lunabotics)

September 2025 - Present

Systems Engineer · Pittsburgh, PA

  • On the systems team for CMU's NASA Lunabotics lunar mining rover (cmu-moon-miners.com): requirements documentation, budget tracking, and coordination across mechanical, software, avionics, and outreach.
  • Contributed to the Project Management Plan and system requirements toward PDR and the Systems Engineering Paper.
  • Map NASA Lunabotics competition requirements onto the rover so the design stays compliant with the rules.

Helioss

July 2023 - Present

Founder & CTO · Independent (continuing while at CMU) - more information on my website

  • Building Helioss (Helicopter Ionized Suppression System): helicopter-mounted ionized delivery of Ecofire wildfire suppressant.
  • Built a functional H1 prototype end to end (mechanical, electrical, firmware), ground-tested; filed patent WO2024/261364 A1 (PCT/ES2024/070378).

Skills

Robotics

ROS 2 · LiDAR · OpenCV · NVIDIA Jetson · imitation learning / VLA · systems engineering

Electronics

analog/digital circuit design · schematic capture and PCB layout (KiCad) · SPICE · SMT/through-hole soldering · oscilloscope

Embedded

C/C++ · Python · ESP32 · NXP i.MX 6 · Renesas · I2C/SPI/UART · OTA

Mechanical

SolidWorks · Fusion 360 · Onshape

Languages

English, Spanish, Catalan (native) · French (beginner)

02/About / Interests

Background and focus.

I am a CMU Robotics Institute MRSD student with 4 years in the automotive industry spanning hardware and product design, system integration, and OEM program delivery. I came to MRSD to close the loop on end-to-end robotic systems after years of boards, firmware, and system architecture for real products.

At Idneo I moved from electrical engineering into system architecture and West Coast technical BD: ESP32 and i.MX bring-up, electromechanical prototypes, and 50+ OEM engagements including Waymo, Zoox, Zipline, Cruise, Ford, Lucid, and Rivian. That client and systems work is the differentiator.

Systems engineer on CMU Moon Miners (NASA Lunabotics). Since September 2026 I am electrical and embedded lead, and project manager, on a five-person industry-sponsored video-to-policy humanoid capstone teaching a Unitree G1 EDU a Nissan pre-trim pick-and-place from factory video. Interests: humanoids, space robotics, climate, and wildfire mitigation technologies like Helioss.

03/Selected work

Boards, firmware, and systems that had to run.

04/More

05/Contact

Seeking Summer 2027 internship in robotics, ideally on humanoid or field robotics.