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I'm Jose Torres

Electrical Engineer — Embedded Systems & PCB Design

About Me

I’m an electrical engineer at Realbotix, where I design hardware and firmware for robotic systems. I earned my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Francisco State University in December 2025, and I also work part-time as a research technician at SFSU’s Mobile & Intelligent Computing Lab, building AI tools for students and faculty. I like working close to the hardware — from schematics and PCB layout to bare-metal firmware — and my interests span embedded systems, power and circuits, PCB design, and AI.

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Projects

01 · Capstone · Spring 2025

Power Monitoring & Outage Alert System

Battery-powered ESP32 monitor that measures power quality and flags outages, built after campus construction kept cutting power without warning.

ESP32C++Analog Front EndLTspiceInterrupts
02 · Embedded Systems

Digital Oscilloscope

Low-cost STM32 oscilloscope that streams ADC samples to a Python GUI for live plotting, frequency readout, and FFT.

STM32ADCDMAUARTPythonPyQtGraph
03 · Microcontrollers · Spring 2024

Wireless RC Car

Two-board STM32 system that wirelessly drives a small RC car from a joystick, written bare-metal at the register level.

STM32L476 (Cortex-M4)Bare-Metal CnRF24L01SPIPWMADC
04 · MIC Lab · SFSU

AICO — AI Collaborative Platform

AI educational platform that connects coursework to AI while keeping faculty in the loop.

Next.jsFastAPILlamaIndexMongoDBRedisMilvus
05 · MIC Lab · SFSU

AI-Bridge

Full-stack platform where neurodiverse college students reflect on their teamwork with an AI coach, and instructors see engagement analytics and AI-generated insights.

PythonLlamaIndexAI AgentsRAG
06 · Intro to C Programming

Ball Balancing Controller

PID controller on an Arduino Uno that balances a ball on a beam, from my first C programming course.

CArduinoPID Control

Experience

Electrical Engineer

Realbotix LLC

May 2026 – Present
  • Design electrical hardware and embedded firmware for robotic systems, from schematic and PCB layout through board bring-up and integration.

Research Technician (Part-Time)

MIC Lab, San Francisco State University

Aug 2024 – Present
  • Built the Python backend for an AI course assistant used by 100+ students, using an LLM to analyze conversations and material usage (homework, notes) so faculty can see how students use AI.
  • Work on AICO, an AI platform linked to Canvas LMS that grounds responses in faculty-provided notes, and AI-Bridge, an agentic assistant for neurodiverse students developed with psychology and education faculty.

Electrical Engineering Intern

Sunn Audio

Aug 2022 – Mar 2024
  • Hand-assembled production analog audio boards, including preamps, from bare PCB, soldering surface-mount (SMT) and through-hole components for units shipped directly to customers.
  • Ran pre-shipment functional testing, driving boards with a signal generator and verifying output on an oscilloscope to catch faulty units before they reached customers.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

San Francisco State University

Dec 2025
  • Relevant Coursework: Embedded Systems, Microcontrollers, Op-Amp Design, Data Structures & Algorithms