Arav Rawat

Google

Software Engineering Intern, Pixel performance team

Worked on Android and Pixel performance infrastructure used to understand frame workloads and tune power allocation.

• Built a Timeline API connecting Android Graphics with Pixel's Power HAL to expose frame timings and thread mappings.
• Improved CPU/GPU duration-estimate accuracy by 12% and increased gaming FPS per watt by 5% through adaptive power allocation.

C++ · Android · Power HAL · performance systems

Mountain View, CA

Apex Space

Flight Software Intern

Developed embedded flight-software and telemetry systems across spacecraft flight nodes and supporting hardware.

• Created NASA C-based cFS applications for shell commands, file operations, and health information.
• Expanded storage capacity through FPGA and Yocto Linux changes and built a 10 GB/s back-orbit telemetry pipeline.

C · C++ · NASA cFS · FreeRTOS · Yocto Linux · FPGA

Los Angeles, CA

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Software & Embedded Engineering Intern, Group 47 Energy Systems

Built data infrastructure for monitoring and analyzing power systems at high frequency.

• Developed a multithreaded C++ pipeline backed by AWS and PostgreSQL, with Grafana for monitoring.
• Increased throughput from 1 Hz to 1 MHz using lossless compression that reduced data size by 90%.

C++ · AWS · PostgreSQL · Grafana · multithreading

Boston, MA

Applied Research Laboratories

Machine Learning Intern, Signal and Information Sciences Lab

Developed and evaluated machine-learning pipelines for anomaly detection in time-series network data.

• Built PyTorch anomaly-detection pipelines for time-series data.
• Created a test harness covering precision, recall, F1, and ROC-AUC for time-series foundation models.

Python · PyTorch · time-series ML · model evaluation

Austin, TX

Human-Enabled Robotic Technology Laboratory

Robotics Research Assistant

Developed interfaces that help operators align and control the dVRK surgical robot.

• Built an OpenGL and ROS heads-up display that reduced robot-alignment time by 40%.
• Developed a machine-learning speech classifier that translates spoken words into robot actions.

C++ · OpenGL · ROS · machine learning · dVRK

Austin, TX

Pharmesol

Software Engineering Intern

Built a testing tool for a pharmacy conversational assistant using real conversation transcripts.

• Used OpenAI APIs to automate transcript-based testing and improved testing speed by 70%.

Python · OpenAI APIs · LLM evaluation

New York, NY

BeatNews AI

Software Engineering Intern, part-time

Worked on a Next.js news aggregation product, including feeds, authentication, administrative tools, and notification infrastructure.

Next.js · MongoDB · NextAuth.js · REST APIs

Austin, TX · Remote

Exolambda

Embedded Systems Intern

Built aerospace communications and motion-control prototypes using embedded networking, stepper motors, inverse kinematics, and AprilTags.

Embedded systems · REST · CoAP · AprilTags

Garland, TX