Hello, I'm Miguel
M.S. ECE at Carnegie Mellon. Previously EV hardware at Ford.
M.S. ECE at Carnegie Mellon, focused on embedded systems, PCB design, and firmware.
At Ford, I improved EV power delivery and led a cross-functional hardware audit. At CMU, I deployed automated RF matching at Hacker Fab, mentored embedded students, and shipped projects from a real-time vehicle to robotics and desktop hardware.
Ford return offer
CMU M.S. ECE
Deployed RF matcher
Ford Motor Company
Delivered EV hardware integration across three vehicle programs ahead of schedule, resolving voltage-drop issues and specification gaps across 50+ underbody requirements while driving component cost optimization—earning a return offer from Ford’s eBeam group.
CMU Hacker Fab
Built an open-source automated RF matcher for $636 that sustains ~1.2 VSWR at 95W forward power for 60+ minute depositions, using real-time coordinate descent on a Teensy 4.1 to drive air-variable capacitors via a shielded custom PCB.
Carnegie Mellon University
Guide 60+ students through preemptive RTOS debugging with GDB and OpenOCD, STM32 register-level firmware and serial peripherals, and end-to-end autonomous vehicle bring-up from 2-layer PCB reviews through PID tuning and assembly.
Ford Motor Company
Resolved a 5.8V drop across an EV control unit through schematic review and corrective hardware proposals, cleared 10+ specification misalignments across three programs auditing 50+ requirements, and delivered a 5% cost reduction on key underbody components.
Carnegie Mellon
Taught weekly labs for 100+ undergraduates in introductory ECE, covering breadboard circuit design, lab instrumentation, structured debugging workflows, and hands-on troubleshooting.
SATA Inc.
Built a VAN’s RV-12 with Southern Arizona Teen Aviation over 200+ hours, leading airframe assembly, systems installation, and FAA-compliant avionics integration as a core build-team contributor.
Flagship RF work first, followed by the real-time and robotic systems that show the same sensing-to-actuation range.
Engineering projects
STM32 vehicle stack with a custom RTOS, ARMv7-M boot code, preemptive scheduling, PID speed control, UART telemetry, and LCD state updates.
Autonomous bottle-collection robot with Raspberry Pi vision, Arduino motor control, UART command protocol, custom power delivery, and arm actuation.
Independent builds
ESP32-S3 smart display in a custom Kirby enclosure with touch UI, weather, alarms, timers, minigame screens, Wi-Fi, and I2S audio.
Pure analog LED chaser on a custom Kirby-shaped PCB with 555 timer sequencing, decade counters, exposed HASL art, and coin-cell auto-shutoff.
