ECE @ Carnegie Mellon · 2028
Joshua Taylor
Hardware & Software
Building systems at the boundary of silicon and software — verification, embedded, and the things in between.
experience
Software Development Intern
Ford Motor Company
Summer 2026
IT Architecture & Systems Engineering Intern
BWX Technologies
Summer 2025
Evaluated Microsoft CoPilot Studio and Power Automate for production readiness in a Government Cloud environment. Built an AI-powered resume screening tool for HR and an AI ticket response tool for the help desk. Applied government data security standards throughout.
selected builds
AI-Powered Aim Assist System
Jetson Orin Nano + global shutter camera + EMS actuators. Dual-mode PID controller running at 1kHz and SPI digital potentiometers for precise muscle stimulation control, achieving a 15ms pixel-to-stimulation response time.
8-bit RISC-V Processor
Full processor implementation in Verilog on Basys3 FPGA. Includes instruction decoder, testbench, and SystemVerilog FSM design.
FPGA Vending Machine Controller
SystemVerilog FSM-based coin acceptor on a Boolean FPGA board. Detects nickels, dimes, and quarters via pulse counting, with two-flop input synchronizers for metastability handling and 7-segment display output.
PCB Design & Fabrication
Designed and fabricated a PCB with defined test patterns, going end-to-end from schematic to physical board via JLCPCB with full BOM and CPL files.
stack
LANGUAGES
SystemVerilog
Python
C / C++
MATLAB
HARDWARE
Basys3 FPGA
Jetson Orin
Raspberry Pi
Eagle / JLCPCB
CONCEPTS
RTL Design
Signals & Systems
PID Control
SPI / UART
TOOLS
Git / GitHub
Linux
Vivado
VS Code
Let’s connect.
jtaylor3@andrew.cmu.edu