Amado Antonini has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Amado currently holds the position of Director of Robot Perception at Symbotic since April 2023. Prior to this, they worked at OpenSpace as a Senior Machine Vision Engineer from November 2021 to March 2023 and then continued in the same role from April 2023. Before OpenSpace, they founded and served as the CEO of AuTurn from January 2020. From August 2019 to November 2021, they worked as a Perception & Autonomy Engineer at Draper. Amado also worked as a Deep Learning Engineer at ZENUITY from June 2018 to July 2019. Amado Antonini has further experience as a Graduate Student Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 2016 to May 2018, as a Software Engineering Intern at KEECKER in June 2016, and as a Vehicle Autonomy Engineer at Duckietown Engineering Co. from February 2016 to June 2016. Additionally, they worked as a Mechatronics Researcher at GEAR Lab (gear.mit.edu) from August 2015 to May 2016, focusing on modeling and characterizing synchronizers for the design of a clutch-less, hybrid transmission for the Ferrari 458. Amado also interned as a Robotics Intern at Centre de Robotique - MINES ParisTech in June 2015.
Amado Antonini completed their education with the following chronological history:
From 2016 to 2018, they attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Prior to that, from 2013 to 2016, they also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Mechanical Engineering.
In 2012 and 2013, Amado Antonini attended Ozarks Technical Community College, although no specific degree or field of study information is provided for that period.
In addition to their formal education, Amado Antonini obtained various certifications. In September 2020, they obtained an intermediate-level certification in C++ and Problem Solving from HackerRank. In August 2020, they also received a certificate in the Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. Moreover, in October 2018, they obtained a First Aid certification from Allgemeinen Sanitäts Hilfe e.V., and in June 2014, they became an SDI Open Water Scuba Diver through Technical Diving International.
April, 2023 - present