Rahul Bansal

Tesla Optimus | UIUC

United States

About

Experience

  • Robotics Software Engineer at Tesla
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Quantitative Trading Intern at Susquehanna International Group
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

  • Flight Software Intern at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
    May 2024 - Dec 2024 · 8 mos

    • Working on the NASA Dragonfly flight software subsystem as part of the Space Exploration Sector to send and operate a rotorcraft over 700 million miles away on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon • Implementing CFE Performance Monitor on spacecraft to globally track CPU usage for over 400 points of interest • Store telemetry data in influx database and create grafana server for real-time data analysis • Dockerize pipeline to allow for automatic distribution to flight, ground, and test software team

  • Torque Vectoring Lead at Illini Electric Motorsports
    Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Engineered a torque vectoring control algorithm to enhance vehicle cornering capabilities in MATLAB/Simulink • Used CARSIM simulation software to test the torque vectoring algorithm and tune the yaw moment calculation based on lateral acceleration and yaw rate gain • Decreased average lap time by 7% with higher stability and control • Integrate code onto STM32 chip and utilized CAN bus protocol for data logging and AMK communication • Taught my subteam about vehicle dynamics and CARSIM for an electric vehicle to improve performance

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant | Intro to Algorithms and Models of Computation at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 · 11 mos

    Led discussion sections twice a week to teach students about algorithmic concepts, such as dynamic programming, recursion, backtracking, graphs, minimum spanning trees, reductions, and NP-completeness • Graded homework and provided feedback to over 400 students