Jose Ruiz
Tesla
Los Gatos,CA
10
years of professional experience
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Experienced in fast-paced environments and adaptable to last-minute changes. Thrives under pressure and consistently earns high marks for work quality and speed.
Work History
Hardware Engineering Technician
1 Year 2 Months- Assembles prototype and production-level data collection hardware with a strong focus on quality, consistency, and reliability
- Build, test, and inspect custom wire harnesses, ensuring precision and attention to detail in every stage of assembly
- • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and operations teams to design, implement, and validate new hardware configurations
- Developed and refined manufacturing and deployment best practices, improving efficiency, reducing downtime, and enhancing overall product quality
- Manage and track hardware issues using internal tools, maintaining clear visibility throughout the production lifecycle, as well as maintain logistics of hardware deployment
- Diagnosed, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware issues across multiple systems, ensuring full functionality prior to deployment
Data Collection Operator
8 Months- Worked with engineers to collect and test data on robotic testing
- Troubleshoot data with software provided at work to ensure accurate workflow
- Trained operators on how the workflow works and spent months training
- Collected 1,000+ data to for the Optimus team system development
Trust & Safety Associate/ Platform Specialist
2 Years 2 Months- Review, analyze, and transcribe user generated video, photo, and speech content in order to train the Al model to recognize different content elements
- Generate diverse prompts, according to provided guidelines and criteria, to improve the large language model's comprehension and response capabilities
- Assess and evaluate the Al model's response output to user queries to ensure the model was not hallucinating and contained accurate citations
- Rate & annotate Al speech output to train the model to interact with users in a conversational way
Shift Leader
4 Years 11 Months- Evaluate employee skills and knowledge regularly, providing hands-on training and mentoring to individuals with lagging skills.
- Delivered superior training and leadership to teams to boost performance
- Inventoried materials on weekly basis to identify and resolve discrepancies, maintaining.
- Completed employee performance valuations to identify weakness and develop improvement.
- Implemented internal processes to maximize efficiency and ensure smooth workflow by designing a checklist that included tasks and time frames for each shift.
Skills
Hardware Troubleshooting & Diagnostics
Wire Harness Assembly & Testing
Process Improvement & Optimization
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Data analysis
Software troubleshooting
Quality assurance
Technical training
Problem solving
Maintenance & repair
Timeline
Hardware Engineering Technician
Tesla
05.2025 - CurrentRead More
Data Collection Operator
Tesla
09.2024 - 05.2025Read More
Trust & Safety Associate/ Platform Specialist
Accenture
08.2021 - 10.2023Read More
Shift Leader
In-N-Out Burger
09.2016 - 08.2021Read More