Noah Medical (Employee #1 / 150+)
Senior Engineering Manager — Aug 2025–present · San Carlos, CA
- Lead the robotics organization. Own the technical direction and control software for our next-generation robotic platforms — real-time control, motion planning, and system integration.
- Manage up to 7 engineers at a time (12 total across my Noah tenure): hiring, mentorship, performance, and helping people figure out where they want to take their careers.
Engineering Manager — Aug 2023–Aug 2025
- Led motion control software for Galaxy from late development through commercial deployment. It's now in hospitals across the country, with thousands of clinical procedures completed.
- Owned the instrument control algorithms, the C++ codebase, and the automated test suite (MSTest, GoogleTest) for the continuum robot and 7-DOF arm subsystems — all under the IEC 62304 software lifecycle.
Tech Lead, Robotics and Controls — Apr 2022–Aug 2023
- Designed and shipped the multi-threaded production motion control algorithms and the C++ stack for the flexible continuum robot. Also wrote a meaningful portion of the 7-DOF arm software.
- Authored the FDA 510(k) software submission for motion control: requirements, architecture, V&V protocols, and risk analysis (IEC 62304 / ISO 14971).
- Ran technical design reviews and mentored engineers on real-time control, kinematics, and writing code worth putting on a clinical robot.
System Engineer (Robotics and Control engineering) — Sep 2019–Apr 2022
- Sole robotics engineer for the first year and first employee at the company. Built the control software stack in C++ on QNX RTOS for the flexible continuum robot.
- Designed the kinematics, motion control, and safety logic that powered our earliest investor demos and cadaver studies.
