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Career profile
Tobin Fricke
Experimental Physicist
Alameda, California, United States
Career path.
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Dec 2025 - Present- Aurora
Staff Software Engineer, Motion Control
Aug 2022 - Oct 2025 - Aurora
Senior Software Engineer, Motion Control
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 - Aurora
Software Engineer, Optimization and Control
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021 - Makani
Staff Flight Control Software Engineer
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021 - Makani
Senior Flight Control Software Engineer
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019 - Makani
Flight Control Software Engineer
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017 - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nov 2011 - Oct 2014 - Louisiana State University
Graduate Student
Aug 2008 - Nov 2011 - California Institute of Technology
Visiting Research Student
Jan 2007 - Dec 2011 - Ant Hill Cooperative
Co-founder
Sep 2004 - Dec 2006 - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Computer Scientist
Jun 2004 - Aug 2004 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computer Scientist
Oct 2003 - Jun 2004 - CERN
Summer Student
Jun 2003 - Aug 2003 - Weizmann Institute of Science
Summer Student
Jun 2002 - Aug 2002 - The Aerospace Corporation
Summer Student
Jun 2000 - Aug 2000 - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Summer Student
Jun 1999 - Aug 1999 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jan 1999 - Jan 2001 - Planetary Science Institute
Intern
Jan 1997 - Jan 1999