Soha Pouya

Leading engineering for NVIDIA Isaac Applications -- shaping technical vision and strategy across the full robotics stack, from simulation and synthetic data generation through CUDA-accelerated libraries and foundation models to real-world robot deployment.

Led engineering across two products: co-architected the Isaac AMR autonomy stack and built the team that delivered a full autonomy stack on mobile robots; and prior to that managed cross-functional integration and delivery of the NDAS Autonomous Parking Assist product, delivered via NVIDIA's AV platform to customers including Mercedes-Benz.

Autonomy for a Fleet of Sidewalk Delivery Robots ---- Built and led the robotics navigation team for Postmates X's sidewalk delivery robot fleet. Defined the technical direction and roadmap, oversaw production deployment of a high-performance navigation stack in real urban environments, and developed an in-house simulation framework to accelerate iteration.

Autonomy for Last-Mile Delivery ---- Joined as the 4th employee and first robotics SW engineer -- built the last-mile delivery autonomy stack focused on autonomous parking from the ground up, recruited and mentored engineers across the full pipeline (perception, localization, planning, and control), and served as tech lead for vehicle control and motion planning through the successful public-road launch of Gen-1 vehicles.

AI for Optimal Planning/Scheduling - at the Stanford incubator StartX ---- Co-led an AI-powered construction planning startup (Stanford StartX). Directed R&D on large-scale discrete optimization, managed early-stage operations, and grew the team to 10 engineers delivering product alpha to top-10 U.S. construction firms.

Research in simulation-guided design for assistive robotics, in collaboration with Ekso Bionics (Berkeley spin-off start-up) and Stanford SRI.

Doctoral research in motion planning and control for legged and modular robotic systems, including Humanoids. Also served as a teaching assistant and contributed to robotics research engineering during the program.

Visited the USC Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab, led by Stefan Schaal, to explore research and advancements in computational learning and motor control algorithms and simulation tools.