Experience with on-device AI acceleration (NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, TensorRT, CUDA, ONNX Runtime), real-time speech-to-speech models (Whisper, lightweight SLMs), wake-word detection, 3D point cloud perception, depth estimation, thermal vision, and Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models. Experience with mechanical payload design, rapid prototyping, actuator dynamics, kinematics/dynamics of legged locomotion, power distribution boards (PDB), high-density Li-ion Battery Management Systems (BMS), embedded firmware (FreeRTOS), CAN bus, EtherCAT, USB 3.2, I2C, and SPI.