About

I am an experienced organizational leader, software and hardware technical lead, and robotics research engineer with 10 years of industry experience in startups and large companies performing fundamental research in robotics and AI for tech transition into fielded products.

I lead autonomy at Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, where I work with an amazing group of GNC engineers, autonomy software developers, roboticists, and AI/ML researchers. Our powerhouse team works alongside Aurora’s super airplane designers, manufacturers and test pilots to build and fly incredible airplanes and publish cutting-edge research. Before Aurora, I built assorted machines and robots at MIT (Go Beavers!!), at Seegrid, a factory robotics company, and Nub Labs, a company I co-founded with some absolutely brilliant engineers who have gone on to grow some amazing companies.

I am a devoted family man and super proud of my two young children and the life my wife and I are creating together. When I’m not busy growing up with my kids, I try to squeeze in some other passions: making pizza, getting myself and others onto bicycles, and writing music. These days I write and record as Billy Bliss and with The Drills.

Drop me a line if you’d like to talk about robots, airplanes, building amazing engineering teams, technology strategy, bikes, music, pizza, etc. — will@<thiswebsite.com>