Christoph Albrecht

Software Engineer | Optimization and Combinatorial Algorithms | Robotics | Autonomous Vehicles | Large-scale Systems

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Experience in software development for distributed system, data analysis and optimization. Strong analytical background in combinatorial algorithms and discrete mathematics (Ph.D. in mathematics). Specialties: distributed systems, large scale data analysis, optimization, combinatorial algorithms, discrete mathematics, electronic design automation (logical and physical design), motion planning for autonomous vehicles and robotics, TPU systems.

Experience

  • Founding Staff Research Engineer at Math Inc
    Nov 2025 - Dec 2025 · 2 mos

    Autoformalization of mathematical theorems and proofs. • Developed chess playing agents with OpenAI Agent SDK and Stockfish to demonstrate trace logging in the Morph Labs environment. • Prototyped a first version for the new Math.Inc Gauss app.

  • Staff Software Engineer at Google
    Aug 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Platform Infrastructure Engineering for Accelerator Systems and ML Supercomputers: • Enhanced the resiliency of large scale Tensor Processor Unit (TPU) systems for large language model training and inference.

  • ML Performance Engineer at Covariant
    Nov 2023 - Jul 2024 · 9 mos

    • Developed a new moving sorter induction strategy, enhancing robot station deployment capabilities. • Built and improved automatic tools for analyzing robot system performance, leading to targeted enhancements. • Fine-tuned and evaluated machine learning models for segmentation, object recognition, and grasp generation. • Enhanced motion planner for 6 degree-of-freedom robots, optimizing operational efficiency.

  • Staff Software Engineer, Team Lead for Search and Discomfort at Waymo
    Sep 2018 - May 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Motion planning for the autonomous vehicle. I worked in the Speed team and also with the Spacetime Search team. I focused on discomfort versus progress trade-off and worked on the interaction with reactive agents. I contributed to the working group on intersections for urban driving.

  • Staff Software Engineer at Google
    Apr 2009 - Sep 2018 · 9 yrs 6 mos

    I worked in the Search Infrastructure Team on the analysis of the search components and on capacity planning. In the Storage Analytics Team I worked on using flash memory in addition to disk drives for globally distributed storage systems. Then I worked in the Network Architecture Team on the optimization and analysis of Google's backbone networks.