SpaceX
Dillan Kenney currently serves as a Senior GNC Software Engineer at SpaceX, focusing on the maintenance of Guidance Navigation & Controls (GNC) software applications for Starshield and Starlink, with previous roles including GNC Software Engineer II and GNC Infrastructure Engineer. Prior experience spans roles as a Robotics Software Engineer at SpaceX, where Dillan contributed to R&D projects aimed at optimizing manufacturing processes for Raptor rocket components, and as an Undergraduate Robotics Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, co-authoring an ICRA 2021 research paper. Additional experience includes positions at Amazon as a Robotics R&D Hardware Development Engineer, Northrop Grumman as a Technical Hardware Engineer, ANSYS, Inc. as a Test Software Engineer, and CNH Industrial as a Manufacturing Engineer. Dillan holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.