Kevin Jiang, Robotics & Physical AI Engineer

Forward Deployed Engineer at RLWRLD, turning teleoperation data into robot foundation-model training sets, and a Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I've built exoskeleton controllers and AprilTag tracking for robot-arm teleop in Tokyo, on-device AI for robots at hackathons, and production AI systems at a YC startup.

Experience

  • Forward Deployed Engineer at RLWRLD (Aug 2026 - Present): Teleop data (Quest 3, Vive, Manus gloves) into LeRobot datasets that fine-tune the RLDX-1 robot model.
  • Software Engineer at Hamming AI (Dec 2025 - Apr 2026): Shipped an adaptive red-teaming eval suite for voice agents and an LLM root-cause chatbot.
  • Robotics Engineer at Reazon Human Interaction Lab (Jun 2025 - Aug 2025): <150 g exoskeleton wrist controller and AprilTag tracking (+20% accuracy) for robot-arm teleop.
  • Hardware Developer at Midnight Sun (Sep 2024 - Apr 2025): Double-layer PCBs for the solar car's controller; soldered and tested IMU and power boards.
  • Front-End Developer at Zenith Energy Corporation (Sep 2022 - Jan 2023): Built client e-commerce sites and brand graphics.

Selected projects

  • Robotic Arm Puppeteer: Teleop toolkit for an 8-DOF research arm: a <150 g exoskeleton wrist controller, multi-camera AprilTag tracking (+20% pose accuracy) and ROS 2 bridges to RViz, MuJoCo and Isaac Sim.
  • Pomme: Autonomous fruit-picking rover: 5-DOF arm, on-device ripeness detection, lidar SLAM, and a fine-tuned model that turns commands into actions.
  • Expressive AI Robot Head: 12-servo robot head that runs a local speech pipeline (Silero, Whisper, llama.cpp, Zonos) and drives expressions over ROS 2.
  • Kenesis — AR Gesture Controlled Robot: Robot driven by hand gestures through Snap Spectacles: Lens Studio → Flask → MQTT → ROS 2 on a Jetson Nano, with a 3-DoF arm.
  • FlowTO: On-device digital twin of Toronto traffic on a DGX Spark: GNN demand prediction, cuGraph assignment and a Nemotron planning copilot.
  • ShoulderCupid: Wearable AI dating coach: ESP32-CAM glasses read vital-sign cues, Gemini drafts advice, and ElevenLabs whispers it through earbuds.
All projects