About
Hi! I'm Caleb Norfleet, a firmware engineer on the Advanced Hardware Engineering (AHE) team at Zoox. I’m a hardware and software developer with a passion for embedded systems and robotics. I have experience in everything from data structures to op-amps, and I’m exceptionally talented at thinking outside the box and finding novel ways to leverage tools from different disciplines to tackle complex problems. I’m an excellent teammate and leader, and an insanely hard worker. Contact me below for references or any additional information!
My resume is available here.Experience
Firmware engineer on the Advanced Hardware Engineering team at Zoox
Team lead of track loader autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance project for Doosan Bobcat
Co-authored A Board and Projects for an FPGA/Microcontroller-Based Embedded Systems Lab (Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2020)
Firmware engineering intern on the Advanced Hardware Engineering team at Zoox
Behavioral IoT device fingerprinting system design for Juniper Networks
High-level synthesis parametrizable digital down-converter generator design for Leidos Innovations Center
Robotics engineer at Forever Oceans
Head grader for Digital Electronics & Computer Architecture course
Lab proctor for Autonomous Vehicles course and tutor for Comp. Sci. Practices & Principles course
Intern at Duke University Bohórquez Lab
Achievements and Recognition
Selected for Frederick N. Holliday Leadership Award for “outstanding leadership in the Engineering Clinic program”
Awarded Engineering Departmental Honors for "positive impact on the engineering profession and the larger community"
Elected president of Harvey Mudd's Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society chapter
Selected for J. R. Phillips Award for "outstanding experimental technique and engineering judgment"
Selected from class of 225 for Platt Prize Award "to honor exceptional academic achievement and community impact"
National Merit Scholar (top <1% of entrants)
Projects
Motion planner for simulatenous shark tracking and environment sampling with multi-robot AUV system
Localization with intermittent GPS outages using unscented Kalman filter and SVR neural networks
PCBA with pyro charge ignition, compute, and power management for high power rockets
Musical hard drives project
PCBA and software for data logging during high power rocket launches
PCBA for RoboSub acoustic localization system with 4-channel synchronous ADC sampling
Mach 0.6 rocket launch for NAR level 1 high power rocketry certification
Rocket to the edge of space project
VLSI microprocessor design, layout, and fabrication
Autonomous underwater robot with light-based depth-sensing system
Co-president of Harvey Mudd combat robotics club
Treasurer and leadership board member for "Polymerspace" biology makerspace
1st place, solar-powered motor optimization competition
Multicycle RISC ARM microprocessor SystemVerilog design
Food transport system for Claremont Canopy catering company
Editor for hear|here, a campus journal
Autonomous vehicle project for class competition
Graph theory visualization art project
Co-captain of FIRST Robotics Competition / FIRST Tech Challenge teams, 4 years
