I build robots that work where it's hard to send people.

Peter Sauer

I build comms and perception for defense robotics at Applied Intuition, tested on 50 vessels on the water. Before that I was employee #5 on Ocean Power Technologies' WAM-V team and deployed boats to Bahrain and Alaska.

NowSenior SWE, Applied Intuition
BeforeSenior Mechatronics, OPT
TrainedMS Robotics, Northwestern
BasedBoulder, Colorado
ROS2Mine countermeasuresBahrainSensor fusionEmployee #5TritonWAM-VSeafloor mappingAlaska5 protocols → 1 bridgeFirmwareSwiftDocktorPort Hueneme5 → 30 FPSComputer visionUnmanned surface vehiclesgRPC8 / 16 / 22 ft hulls50 vessels on the waterInter-agent commsMadisonDefense roboticsHull to UI

Selected work

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Also built

2012–2021

Experience

2024–now
Senior Software Engineer · Applied Intuition
2023–2024
Senior Mechatronics Engineer · Ocean Power Technologies
2021–2023
Mechatronics Engineer · Ocean Power Technologies
2020–2021
MS Robotics · Northwestern University
2020
Mechanical Engineer · Presco Inc.
2016–2020
BS Mechanical Engineering, minor in CS · UW-Madison

Toolkit

Software

  • C / C++
  • Python
  • Swift
  • TypeScript · React
  • ROS / ROS2
  • Docker · CI/CD
  • gRPC · ZeroMQ · MQTT
  • Protobuf
  • Linux

Autonomy

  • Perception
  • ONNX · Triton
  • Computer vision
  • Sensor fusion
  • MOOS
  • MoveIt

Hardware & design

  • SolidWorks
  • Inventor · Onshape
  • Embedded firmware
  • 3D printing · laser cutting
  • Illustrator · Photoshop
  • UI / UX