Piotr Slawinski

Senior Engineering Manager — Robotics & Controls

San Francisco, CA · 402-570-2864 · piotr.r.slawinski@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/slawinskipiotr

Portrait of Piotr Slawinski

I’m Senior Engineering Manager for robotics at Noah Medical. I joined as employee #1 in 2019 and have worked on the Galaxy bronchoscopy robot since the earliest prototype — through FDA clearance, and into clinical use in hospitals.

My background is in motion control and robot software. I did my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt on magnetic endoscopic robots and have built control algorithms and software for continuum and magnetic robots as well as robot arms.

Experience

Noah Medical (Employee #1 / 150+)

Senior Engineering Manager — Aug 2025–present · San Carlos, CA

  • Leading the robotics engineering organization at Noah.

Engineering Manager — Aug 2023–Aug 2025

  • Responsible for motion control of Galaxy (product on market with thousands of clinical procedures).
  • Owner of instrument control algorithms, test suite, and software.
  • Managed a total of 10 fulltime engineers.

Tech Lead, Robotics and Controls — Apr 2022–Aug 2023

  • Led motion control algorithm and software development.
  • Produced FDA 510(k) submission documentation for motion control software.
  • Developed C++ product software for continuum robots and robot arms.

System Engineer, Robotics and Controls — Sep 2019–Apr 2022

  • Developed C++ control stack for flexible continuum robots on an RTOS.
  • Solo robotics engineer for early demos. Built algorithms and software for investor presentations.
Galaxy system
Galaxy Robotic bronchoscopy system

Vanderbilt University

Ph.D. Student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow and IBM Fellow

  • Co-lead author on endoluminal robotic ultrasound methods (Science Robotics).
  • Lead author on assistive autonomous medical robot maneuvers (IEEE RA-L).
  • Lead author on force control for magnetic robots (IEEE TRO).
  • Developed sensorless robot shape estimation algorithm (IEEE RA-L).

    • Ph.D. Dissertation: "On the Magnetic Control of Endoscopic Robots"

Dual arm registration
Registration for dual-arm control
Magnetic Flexible Endoscopy system
Magnetic Flexible Endoscopy system
Magnetic micro-ultrasound prototype
Magnetic micro-ultrasound prototype
Magnetic wrench Jacobian validation
Experimental validation of the magnetic wrench Jacobian

MRail Inc MRail Logo

Engineering Consultant

  • Integrated and analyzed prototype autonomous rail-health sensing technologies.
MRail installation
MRail prototype deployment

Molex Inc

Engineering Intern

  • Worked on mechanical design and part-handling for an automated assembly line.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Undergraduate Student

  • NASA Microgravity team lead. Developed proposal, recruited team, and led flight at Johnson Space Center (June 2014).
NASA microgravity team
NASA Microgravity team — Johnson Space Center flight (June 2014)

Education

Vanderbilt University — Nashville, TN
Ph.D., M.S., Mechanical Engineering (Aug 2014 — May 2019)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln — Lincoln, NE
B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Aug 2009 — Dec 2013)

Patents

Technical Skills

Languages: C++, Python, C

Developer Tools & Environments: Git, GoogleTest, Visual Studio Unit Test framework, Linux, QNX, ROS2, ROS, Gazebo, RTI DDS, PyTorch

Publications

Selected publications — full list on Google Scholar.