Open for Short-Term & Long-Term Hiring Founding Engineer • R&D Engineer • Consultant
// ROBOTICS, AGENTIC AI & FULL-STACK SYSTEMS ARCHITECT
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ANIRUDH
J BABU

Building custom Robotic & Edge AI solutions, production LLM, RAG, Reasoning & Agentic AI applications, and high-impact Websites for Organizations.

Founding Engineer R&D Engineer Technical Consultant Short & Long-Term Hiring
Explore Offerings & Roles
What I Build & Roles ● AVAILABLE
  • 01 / Custom Robotic & Edge AI Solutions
  • 02 / LLM, RAG, Reasoning & Agentic Apps
  • 03 / Websites for Organizations & SaaS
  • 04 / R&D Engineering & Prototyping
  • 05 / Founding Engineer & Consulting
DIRECTIVE // UNIFICATION OF DETERMINISTIC MOTION WITH ADAPTIVE REASONERS
01 // Profile
Mission Statement

I partner with organizations, founders, and individuals to engineer custom robotic systems, reasoning & agentic AI applications, and modern digital web platforms. Whether you need a Founding Engineer to take your startup from zero to one, an R&D Engineer for deep-tech validation, or a Consultant for short-term sprints or long-term hiring—I deliver production-grade execution.

Custom ROS2 autonomy stacks, MAVSDK flight control, VIO/SLAM, and 60 FPS TensorRT edge vision on NVIDIA & Qualcomm boards.

ROBOTICS & AI
Custom Hardware/Edge Solutions

Custom LLM, RAG, multi-step Reasoning, MCP tooling, and bounded Agentic AI applications built for people and teams.

AGENTIC & RAG
Custom AI Apps & Workflows

High-performance websites, interactive telemetry dashboards, and full-stack web portals tailored for organizations.

WEB PLATFORMS
Websites for Organizations

Flexible availability for short-term project sprints, long-term full-time hiring, Founding Engineer, and R&D Consulting.

0 → 1 READY
Founding / R&D / Consultant
02 // Custom Solutions & Hiring Short-Term & Long-Term Open

WHAT I OFFER

Custom robotics, LLM/RAG/Agentic apps, and organization websites—plus availability as a Founding Engineer, R&D Engineer, or Consultant.

// WORK PROCESS

HOW I WORK

A structured engineering protocol designed to turn your technical brief into a tested, production-ready deployment.

1. Phase 01

DISCOVERY & SPEC

We audit your hardware constraints (SWaP), latency targets, and business logic to lock in a deterministic system architecture and milestone roadmap.

2. Phase 02

SIMULATION & DESIGN

Before touching fragile hardware or live capital, I validate kinematics, sensor fusion, or agentic workflows inside Gazebo SITL or sandboxed testbeds.

3. Phase 03

EDGE & CLOUD BUILD

Writing clean C++/Python nodes, quantizing neural networks via TensorRT/ONNX, and integrating APIs with strict schema and safety guardrails.

4. Phase 04

DEPLOYMENT & HANDOFF

Containerized delivery (Docker/ROS2/Cloud), comprehensive documentation, live telemetry or web deployment, and long-term scaling support.

// HIRING & ENGAGEMENT MODES

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

Available for both short-term project sprints and long-term strategic roles across startups, research labs, and established organizations.

Mode 01 // Short-Term

Short-Term Hiring & Custom Sprints

Fixed-scope contracts (1–8 weeks) to build custom AI/LLM/RAG apps, organization websites, ROS2 packages, or TensorRT edge pipelines.

0 → 1 Leadership
Mode 02 // Startup Core

Founding Engineer

Partnering with founders to architect core IP from day one—owning the robotics stack, agentic AI infrastructure, and full-stack product delivery.

Mode 03 // Deep-Tech

R&D Engineer & Consultant

Applied research, paper-to-production implementation, Gazebo SITL/HIL validation, custom reasoning models, and architecture consulting.

Mode 04 // Long-Term

Long-Term & Full-Time Hiring

Open to long-term contracts, dedicated retainers, or full-time engineering roles building mission-critical Robotics, AI, and Cloud systems.

03 // Operational History

TURNING RESEARCH INTO AUTONOMOUS REALITY

Robotics & AI Consultant

Independent Consulting
Oct 2026 — Dec 2026 // Freelance

Architecting custom UAV robotic software stacks, Precision Landing, Tethered UAV, Backtracking, Precision Follow/tracking, Manual/Autonomous Interceptor.

Custom Robotics & Edge AI UAV // UGV AI Software Development Voice / Vision

Software Engineer

Tsalla Aerospace
2024 — Present // Full-Time
  • Spearheaded end-to-end deep learning model optimization and deployment for autonomous platforms, designing high-throughput inference pipelines in PyTorch and C++.
  • Engineered real-time multi-sensor data fusion pipelines combining 3D LiDAR, Radar, Thermal, and RGB camera streams with EKF2 state estimation and 3D visual scene understanding for real-time edge execution.
  • Led embedded hardware troubleshooting, sensor calibration (LiDAR-camera cross-calibration, IMU), and platform maintenance for field deployment of LiDAR/Visual SLAM and GPS-denied navigation stacks on autonomous drones and mobile robots.
  • Developed modular C++ and Python robotics packages for trajectory planning, collision avoidance, and control feedback loops, validating performance through automated simulation regression tests.
  • Customized PX4 flight controller firmware and developed custom companion computer interfaces to minimize latency and maximize throughput.
  • Converted PyTorch vision models (YOLO v5/v8/v11, segmentation, tracking) to ONNX and optimized runtimes, applying FP16/INT8 quantization, operator fusion, and performance profiling to achieve sub-20ms latency and optimal latency/throughput trade-offs on hardware accelerators (NVIDIA Orin, Qualcomm QRB5165).
EDGE AI / Jetson Orin/Nano / Qualcomm RB5 / Raspberry Pi SITL / HITL / Gazebo / Nvidia Isaac Sim / Mujoco / Rviz Object Detection / Classification / Tracking Onboard VLA / Analysis of the data

Founding Software Engineer (Contract)

Stealth Startup
2024 — 2025 // Part-Time

Spearheaded software development for an AI-powered smart eyewear platform. Engineered low-latency on-device Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and multimodal summarization engines. Integrated agentic voice assistance workflows alongside real-time object detection pipelines—achieving real-time inference on resource-constrained hardware entirely through heavily quantized neural models.

Agentic AI STT - TTS Object Detection Quantization Edge AI - Wearables

AI-ML Intern

Tsalla Aerospace
2024 // R&D Internship
  • Trained, benchmarked, and profiled PyTorch object detection, segmentation, and tracking models across diverse aerial dataset collections.
  • Validated model execution across Linux embedded edge environments (NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi), diagnosing ROS communication latency and profiling memory/cache utilization on resource-constrained platforms.
  • Accelerated deep learning inference speed on NVIDIA Jetson edge modules using TensorRT and ONNX runtime optimization.
SLAM / VIO Gazebo Sim GPS-Denied Nav
04 // Engineering Archive

DEPLOYED SYSTEMS

05 // Web Platforms & Custom AI Apps

ORGANIZATION WEBSITES & WEBAPPS

Bespoke websites for organizations, interactive AI/RAG SaaS platforms, and real-time diagnostic dashboards.

Live System

Fleet Telemetry Dashboard

Real-time robotic fleet monitoring interface displaying live occupancy maps, VIO odometry paths, and SWaP diagnostics via low-latency WebSockets.

React WebSockets ROSBridge Tailwind
Live System

Agentic RAG & Reasoning Studio

Interactive web workspace for querying private documents, executing multi-step LLM reasoning chains, and orchestrating bounded autonomous agents.

Next.js LangChain / RAG FastAPI MCP
Client Service

Websites for Organizations

High-speed, bespoke corporate websites, deep-tech startup landing pages, and full-stack customer portals with embedded AI assistants and analytics.

React / Next.js Tailwind CSS SEO & UI/UX Cloud Hosting
06 // Credentials & Endorsements

VERIFIED CERTIFICATIONS

Authorized technical training completions, deep learning specializations, and executive leadership credentials.

NVIDIA DLI

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

CV & NLP neural network architectures deployed and optimized on hardware-accelerated embedded GPUs.
2024
University of Michigan

Applied Machine Learning in Python

Predictive modeling, data clustering, feature engineering, and statistical evaluation pipelines.
2024
IBM // Coursera

Exploratory Data Analysis for ML

Data wrangling, transformation, schema cleansing, feature engineering, and statistical inference.
2024
IIM Ahmedabad

Engineering Leadership Skills

Cross-functional team execution, decision-making under uncertainty, and strategic technical leadership.
2025
SHORT-TERM • LONG-TERM • FOUNDING • CONSULTING

NEED CUSTOM ROBOTICS, AI APPS,
OR AN ORGANIZATION WEBSITE?

Available to develop custom Robotic & Edge AI solutions, LLM/RAG/Reasoning & Agentic AI applications, and Organization Websites—or join your team as a Founding Engineer, R&D Engineer, or Consultant.

anirudhjbabu@gmail.com