Machine Learning Engineer 04/2024–Present | Self-employed | Germany
Built and released batgrad, an open-source system for neural modeling of battery dynamics, with public data-processing, training, and inference code, datasets, and a pretrained checkpoint. Currently benchmarking state-space models and neural estimators for embedded deployment. batgrad blog
Machine Learning Engineer (Consultant) 11/2024–05/2025 | Chemix, Inc. | Sunnyvale, USA (Remote)
Proposed model-architecture and long-horizon validation changes, established the team’s distributed tuning workflow, and developed custom degradation and thermal submodels for battery simulation.
10/2023–03/2024 | Solo Motorcycle Travel | Vietnam
ML Research Intern & Master's Thesis 06/2022–09/2023 | Fraunhofer ISE | Freiburg, Germany
Initiated a thesis collaboration to benchmark neural models for battery state-of-charge estimation on measured cell data. A decoder-only Transformer was the strongest neural candidate, while calibrated reduced-order baselines remained more accurate. Thesis
Embedded Systems Intern 06/2021–05/2022 | Telocate GmbH | Freiburg, Germany
Built a smart-glove prototype spanning custom sensor electronics, FPGA acquisition, and time-series classification, connecting live sensor measurements to desktop ML inference.
10/2018–10/2020 | Travel & Licensed Electrical Work | Asia and Australia
Battery Engineer 04/2017–09/2018 | MAHLE GmbH | Stuttgart, Germany
Owned electrical-interface design and drove cross-functional integration of an 800 V / 750 kW immersion-cooled battery pack prototype through validation. Built a bench-validated busbar thermal-design tool that mechanical engineers used independently.
Hardware Intern & Bachelor's Thesis 04/2016–03/2017 | MAHLE GmbH | Stuttgart, Germany
Brought up and validated a bidirectional DC/DC converter for thermoelectric waste-heat recovery through simulation and bench testing, and modeled vehicle electrical-system behavior.
M.Sc. Embedded Systems Engineering 11/2020–09/2023 | University of Freiburg | Freiburg, Germany
B.Eng. Mechatronics 10/2012–03/2017 | Ulm University of Applied Sciences | Ulm, Germany
Licensed Electrical Work 06/2011–09/2015 | OSRAM AG | Augsburg, Germany
Industrial electrical installation and fault tracing during university semester breaks.