Jonathan Pedersen

Working on big things. Reach out for Recommendations.

Current Work

Waymo — Something new.

Past Work

Planted Solar — Software Lead — 1 Year

• Automated solar farm construction.
• Joined as first experienced software engineer.
• Started software roadmap and stack from scratch.
• Designed, prioritized, and built site design and optimization tooling.

Waymo — Senior Software Engineer — 4 Years

• Worked on the code that drives the car.
• Worked on the deep-learned motion planning team.
  • Worked on deep-learned model that predicted controls directly.
• Responsible for pick-ups, drop-offs, and trip optimization.
  • Led onboard/offboard interface redesign.
  • Created and integrated predictive parking and traffic signals.
  • Designed and built novel simulation techniques.
  • Many projects spanned 3+ teams (Router, Offboard, Planner, UX, Simulation).
• Wrote the technical onboarding documentation for Waymo's Planner team of 100+ engineers.

Part-Time Work

Skipfor Capital Partners — Founding Partner

• Investment syndicate of a diverse set of GSB students.
• Investing in a wide range of early-stage endeavours.

NFX — Venture Fellow

• Investing in the Stanford startup ecosystem.
• Sourced and pushed for Clarative, a $1M check led by James Currier.
• Other deals include BuildCheck AI, EFEX, and Lilo.

Playground Global (Deep-Tech Venture Capital) — Summer Intern

• Covered AI and Deep-Learning. Pharma too.
• Brought 15 companies into the pipeline.
• Worked closely with Strand Therapeutics on their market models and $153M Series B.

Education

• Stanford MBA '24
• Stanford Master's in Mechanical Engineering '18
  • Teaching assistant for senior-level thermo and fluid dynamics.
• Stanford Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering '17

Side Projects

• Personal "hedge fund."
• LockItIn — an LLM-powered sportsbook in your group chat.
• Dashcam → explicit 3D representation (MegaSaM).
• Large-scale data discovery tool.
• Reinforcement learned the card game Coup.
• Reinforcement learned Spades.