Clayton Haight

Hardware Lead @ Sunday

Mountain View, California, United States

About

I have been building robots for close to two decades, and I am currently working on making them more useful at Sunday Robotics. I had the pleasure of interning at many companies during my time at Waterloo, and learned about engineering across many different company sizes and industries.

Experience

  • Hardware Lead - Founding Engineer at Sunday
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    First hardware engineer, bringing the hardware from scrappy prototypes to mass production, hiring 20+ people across mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and manufacturing. Scaled local manufacturing production of a wearable data collection device to 10k units per year, shipped to over 1000 people across the US. Led development of a semi-humanoid 32 DOF home robot awaiting testing in homes in late 2026.

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Zipline
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Developed customer deployable ground systems for Zipline’s Platform 2 VTOL delivery network, including a dock mounting structure designed for simple installation. Owned the design of service equipment for safely removing and accurately installing 100+ lb docks and 55 lb aircraft, including a novel caster design.

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Tesla
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 · 4 mos

    Improved reliability and manufacturability of next-generation drivetrain hardware for Tesla Semi and other drive unit programs. Converted a differential cover design from stamped steel to die casting for better sealing and corrosion performance, completed tolerance analyses that avoided approximately $150K in scrap risk, and prototyped breather concepts to mitigate oil spillage during high lateral G conditions.

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Neuralink
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 · 4 mos

    Designed automated equipment and manufacturing hardware to support a 100× scale up in implant and charger production. Aided in transfer of charger manufacturing from headquarters to a facililty in Austin, developed an internal charger for reliability testing and animal charging, and helped improve wireless charging coil manufacturing for a future implant revision.

  • Suspension Team Member at University of Waterloo Formula Motorsports
    Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Designed roll-heave decoupled suspension system, implemented for two different seasons. Iterated on kinematics by simulating vehicle dynamics by replaying bump data.