Career — Aaron Ong

Experience

Built at the frontier.

From university robotics labs to the world's most ambitious aerospace and energy companies.

Production Engineer

Hawthorne, CA

Production engineering on the Starship program — focused on electronics production, manufacturing process development, and production readiness for the most ambitious rocket program in history.

Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

Thermal Engineering team working on powertrain and battery cooling systems. Led mechanical design for Cybertruck 48V Battery. Filed 2 patents for battery heater architecture.

Mechanical Design Engineer

Kent, WA

Part of the Rotational Engineering Program, rotating across New Glenn Fluids, Avionics, and Stage Separation to develop vehicle hardware. Authored structural analysis reports for New Shepard to qualify First Human Flight.

M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering

Berkeley, CA

Graduate engineering program with focus on human-centered design and autonomous systems. Thesis work on flexible ridesharing UX published at HCI 2019.

Research Engineer

Cambridge, MA

Contributed to the RoboBee project — one of the world's smallest aerial robots. Research spanned fabrication and hybrid aerial-aquatic locomotion, resulting in a landmark publication in Science Robotics.

B.S. Biomedical & Mechanical Engineering

La Jolla, CA

Undergraduate researcher in the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab. Worked on soft robotics and foloding origami robotics. Contributed to peer-reviewed publications across IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IROS, IEEE RoboSoft.