Jordan Burklund
Robotics Software Engineer - Perception at Sevensense Robotics
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJordan Burklund is a robotics software engineer specializing in perception with 11 years of experience building real-world autonomy systems from research prototypes to production. Based in Zurich, he currently develops perception stacks at Sevensense Robotics and has previous hands-on roles in perception, localization and planning at ANYbotics, Qualcomm and IBM. His background includes rapid prototyping of novel qubit readout hardware and automating complex test systems, demonstrating a knack for hardware-software integration and pragmatic experimentation. Jordan’s experience spans embedded Linux platforms, motion-capture-based testing, and adversarial networking tests for aerial systems, reflecting a broad toolkit across sensing, mapping and system validation. He combines strong academic training from ETH Zurich and WPI with a persistent focus on turning perception research into reliable, testable products. An understated strength is his consistent emphasis on automated testing and benchmarking to de-risk autonomy development.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster's degree, Master's degree at ETH Zurich
Github Skills (16)
lidar10
elevation10
ros9
ubuntu9
terrain9
robotics9
robot9
3d-mapping8
python7
binary-data4
3d4
tbd2
rqt2
nearest-neighbor-search1
urdf1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RBE2001Group8/FinalRobotCode
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:39 PRs, 57 pushes, 29 branches in 2 months
roboticsrosrobot
jsburklund/FTC-OpModes
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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