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San Francisco, California, US

Building the next generation of human computer interaction with voice interfaces.Flow is our next generation dictation product: https://www.flowvoice.ai/

Cupertino, California, US

Worked within the Vision Products Group to develop research tools for AR/VR/XR data visualization, management and pipelining. Designed and implemented new user interactions and interfaces to accelerate AI/ML R&D for the Vision Pro.

Adventure Stories (https://www.adventurestories.ai/) is a choose-your-own-adventure AI story generator targeted at families with young kids. I conceived of, designed, implemented, and marketed the site, built with Next.js running on Vercel.Adventure Stories was acquired in September, 2023.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Worked on the Input Explorations team designing novel EMG (electromyography) interface interaction schemas and experiences.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Worked on the Droidlet project, building infrastructure to support the rapid development of modular assistive agents and robots - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/droidlet-a-one-stop-shop-for-modularly-building-intelligent-agents

Cambridge, MA, US

Served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for two classes at MIT: -6.08: Interconnected Embedded Systems, colloquially referred to as the “IoT class”. Advised student groups on the creation of connected device projects, helped debug circuits based around the ESP32 and Arduino/Python code. -2.S995: Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales, a combined.

Cambridge, MA, US

Integrated Design and Management is a human centered design program at MIT that teaches early career generalists to be able to lead interdisciplinary teams of designers, engineers, and businesspeople. IDM is a joint degree program between the Sloan School of Management and the MIT School of Engineering.

Satellite Beach, Florida, US

See more here: https://ethan-carlson.com/freelancePerformed product development tasks unique to each client, including product strategy, development cycle planning and management, prototyping, circuit design, coding firmware, benchtop testing, CAD, and design for manufacture. Previous clients included Volta Labs, Treau, FutureAir, GEM, Cytera, and Notch.

Raised $1m in seed capital, opened seven escape room venues, and grew the business to $1m in annual revenue. Designed and built electrical systems, interfaces, and enclosures for use in escape room games. Designed product for national distribution and managed a supply chain for BOMs containing thousands of parts. Responsibly wound down the company in Q4.

Founded the first escape room venue in Providence, RI. Designed, constructed, and marketed new puzzles and games in order to create an immersive and delightful customer experience. Hired and managed five employees. Achieved break even within 2 months. Exited at 25x ROC.

London, GB

Designed and implemented electrical hardware with the goal of building 1 GW of aggregated transactive electrical load. Was responsible for system implementation and field functionality of all hardware. Conducted hardware R&D and designed installation procedures. Lead pilot projects for VCharge's first assets in Ireland and Scotland, from on-the-ground work.

London, GB

Developed technology for the scalable management of transactive electrical loads. Developed troubleshooting methodology for low- and high-voltage electrical systems and printed circuit boards.

Detroit, Michigan, US

2012 Venture for America Fellow. VFA takes recent graduates and matches them with growth companies in struggling cities, with the complementary goals of urban revitalization, job creation, and entrepreneurial training.www.ventureforamerica.org

New Haven, CT, US

Designed, tested and optimized whirl combustion cookstove for use in rural Bangladesh and India. Listed as second author in published research.

Cincinnati, OH, US

Assisted the Manufacturing Engineering department in daily tasks, carried out Lean Six Sigma projects, and assisted in process improvement.

New Haven, CT, US

Carried out research and fabrication on a prototype semi-active knee orthosis, to assist those with knee weakness in natural gait.

Ms, Integrated Design And Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering