Lucas Doyle

Autonomous Robotic Laboratory & AI Agents

• Lead the AI scientist pod at an AI-run robotic lab startup; DRI for the AI experimentalist on a major pharma customer engagement; co-designed the lab's three-tier software architecture.

• Built Medra OS: fully unattended bare-metal provisioning that scaled the lab from 10 to 100+ robotic workstations; absorbed an overnight pivot to consumer mini PCs, standing up 60 decks in 4 days.

• Integrated lab instruments (thermocycler, qPCR, plate-handoff rail electronics and firmware) in days each, then packaged the process as an agent skill teammates used to bring up more instruments unaided.

• Created a company-wide autonomous SWE agent used by 50+ engineers; most of its work is self-initiated (PR triage, fleet-alarm first response, bug-report dedup) and most automations on it were built by others.

• Own the monorepo developer environment (4 languages) and an internal apps hub hosting 11 apps in regular use across the company.

Edge ML Infrastructure

• Led end-to-end design and deployment of embedded video ML pipelines powering Samsara’s AI dashcams (2M+ devices in the field).

• Shipped safety-critical features (e.g. tailgating, rolling stop, lane departure) running on resource-constrained hardware.

• Built QA device farms, shadow testing systems, and firmware infrastructure for rapid iteration of on-device ML.

• Spearheaded offline evaluation pipelines with multimodal inputs (video, IMU, GPS, hardware-in-the-loop simulation / emulation).

• Designed debugging and telemetry tools to improve observability across firmware and cloud systems.

Drone Platforms & Aerial Robotics

• Built core technologies for autonomous drone systems used in insurance and mining industries.
• Developed applications for configuring and flashing avionics on fixed-wing and multirotor drones.
• Built geospatial data processing pipelines and survey-grade mapping workflows for large-scale aerial datasets.
• Contributed to system-level integrations during M&A, driving engineering alignment across platforms.

Industrial Robotics

• Early engineer at a Japanese robotics startup, developing the MUJIN Controller for robotic arm workcell planning and optimization.
• Built real-time customer UIs with WebGL and WebSockets for bin-picking and industrial automation systems.
• Collaborated with multinational robotics engineers and deployed solutions for clients including Canon and Honda.