Electrical Engineer

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Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/nathan-peterman

Relevant work experience

2022 - 2024

Electrical Design Engineer @ Agility Robotics

Albany, OR

• Increasing system reliability and decreasing complexity
• Motor controller selection and actuator testing
• Modified system architecture to meet future robot safety standards
• Connectors and harnessing DFx
• Schematic for encoder breakout boards
• Design, schematic, PCB layout, and testing of battery interface boards
• Firmware and testing for battery management system
• Torque sensing
• Competitor analysis

2019 - 2022

Robot Support Engineer @ Agility Robotics

Albany, OR

• Created support team
• Shipped first ever commercial, full-size humanoid
• Managing and delegating incoming support requests
• Testing hardware and writing engineering change requests
• Finding and fixing hardware failures
• Recreating software errors and submitting tickets
• Writing procedures used by production, support, and hardware engineering
• High stakes demos for public and potential investors
  • MARS 2022
  • Amazon networking event
  • Amazon re:MARS 2022
  • Adidas 4D future unveil (complete application development, testing, and driving)
  • Customer A in front of CEO
  • Customer B in front of CEO
  • Various investors and media
• Trained all Digit customers on assembly and use of the robot
• Managing all customer communication post robot purchase (from 2020-2022)
• Wrote training for all incoming employees

2016 - 2019

Electrical Engineering Trainee @ NASA JSC

Houston, TX

Engineering Directorate, Human System Interfaces (EV3)

• Developed demonstration of Bluetooth localization using Angle of Arrival
• Gave demo at wearable technology consortium
• Replaced proprietary code with a multi-threaded Python script

Engineering Directorate, Command and Data Handling (EV2)

• Worked with Dr. Fries on redesigning the Opera prototype
• Designed circuit to drive three quartz crystal microbalances
• Secured funding for additional development of Opera electronics
• Ported Linux to MISL FPGA board

Engineering Directorate, Robotic Systems Technology (ER4)

• Created schematic for analog board of motor controller for Resource Prospector
• Calculated accumulated error of load cell, temperature, and resolver interfaces
• Performed power consumption analysis

Flight Operations Directorate, Plug-in Port Utilization Officer (CO55)

• Developed requirements for software that manages ISS power plug-in plan
• Analyzed video from ISS to check for deviations from plug-in plan
• Trained on front room console for multiple teams (PLUTO, ISO, etc.)
• Contributed to and reformatted PLUTO wiki

2016 - 2016

Undergraduate Researcher @ NIST

Gaithersburg, MD

• XML schema development for materials database
• Qualification testing of powder bed fusion 3D printers
• Gave public technical presentation and published abstract

Education

2022 - Present

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR

MS in Robotics (in progress)

2015 - 2019

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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