Ben Stringer
Autonomy Engineer / Robotics Developer
Building robust autonomy systems, simulation infrastructure, and test frameworks for real-world robotics.
About
Robotics developer at a German startup, former Raytheon Missile Systems intern, electrical engineering student, and autonomy engineer in R&D. My favorite projects are the ones that demand critical thinking, curiosity, and practical creativity under real constraints.
Projects
Eval Suite for Local, Codebase RAG
Personal Project • March 2026
RAG systems are easy to build and hard to trust. You can assemble a retriever, a vector store, and a chat model in an af...
Tractable Online Multi-Agent Coordination in Dense Multi-Level Warehouses
Noyes Technologies • March 2026
This working paper presents an architecture for tractable online multiagent coordination in dense, multilevel warehouse...
Verilog Sensor Driver
Personal Project • 2016
The Verilog sensor driver was a personal project I used to learn more about FPGAs and configurable logic. I implemented...
GetReqt Requirements Manager
Undergraduate Extracurricular • 2016–2017
GetReqt is an engineering requirements management application that I cowrote with Denny Joy to streamline my university...
Autonomous Ground Support Equipment
Undergraduate Extracurricular • 2015–2016
The AGSE is an autonomous launch tower designed to pick up a sample payload, insert it into the rocket, raise the rocket...
NASA Student Launch: National Champions
River City Rocketry • 2016–2017
I was cocaptain of the River City Rocketry team during the 2016–2017 NASA Student Launch Initiative season. That season...
Variable Drag System
NASA Student Launch • 2016–2017
The Variable Drag System VDS is an airbraking system designed to deliver a highpowered rocket to precisely one mile AGL....
Neural Network Engine
Personal Project • 2017
The Neural Network Engine NNE is a C++ program I created as an exercise in understanding lowlevel machine learning funda...
High-powered Rocket Simulation
Undergraduate Extracurricular • 2016–2017
To predict the performance of the VDS and the launch vehicle, I developed a simulation in MathWorks Simulink. It is used...
Winner — MIT 6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning
MIT • 2020
I attended MIT's Intro to Deep Learning course, which included several labs using TensorFlow. One lab challenged student...
Reinforcement Learning on Quadcopter
University Robotics Team • 2019
I spent the last year of my undergraduate studies working on a reinforcement learning solution for my university robotic...
Modular Mission Execution Framework
Aurora Flight Sciences • 2019–2021
This framework allows engineers to create complex behaviors and missions by arranging nodes into a Behavior Tree Colleda...
Test Suite and Simulation for Robotized Warehouse
Noyes Technologies • 2022–Present
A startup building a robotized warehouse needs to be able to coordinate the logistics of multiple robots and numerous un...