Zohaib Sheikh

Zohaib Sheikh

ECE & Mathematics, Engineering Honors · UT Austin

Embedded systems engineer and PCB designer. Intern at Baker Hughes on the Artificial Lift Systems team. Building race car electronics with Longhorn Racing (Formula SAE) at UT Austin.

zohaibsheikh@utexas.edugithub.com/zohaib642linkedin.com/in/zohaibsheikh62

Experience

Baker Hughes

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Current

Engineering and Technology Intern

  • Intern on the Artificial Lift Systems team, contributing to PCB design and AI/ML development for the FusionPro Intelligent Production Drive.

Longhorn Racing (Formula SAE)

Sep 2025 – Present

Current

Embedded Systems Engineer

  • Selected from 7% acceptance pool for UT Austin's Formula SAE Electric team building a fully electric race car.
  • Designed 4 Upright Sensor PCBs collecting live wheel-level data (speed, IMU) with CAN communication.
  • Tested Hall effect sensors and validated firmware integration for accurate wheel speed measurement.
  • Designed wire harness connecting 33 PCBs, routing 180+ meters of wiring in RapidHarness.

Texas A&M University

May 2024 – Apr 2026

CS Research Intern

  • Designing a stream-based malware detection system leveraging machine learning for threat identification.
  • Developed and refined 35+ YARA rules through online classifiers to improve detection accuracy.
  • Selected for a PhD research initiative generating SBOMs, analyzing dependencies with Dependency-Track, and building visualizations with SQLAlchemy and Plotly.
  • Conducted longitudinal studies of open-source repositories tracking changes in security posture.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Mar 2025

HPE Certified Technical Lead

  • Led PM team in 8-hour MVP simulation at HPE HQ, directing 2 sub-teams across data API and programming.
  • Managed milestone builds and GitHub source control across overlapping namespaces under strict deadlines.
  • Delivered working MVP on deadline; HPE-issued certification (Cert ID 9075).

iCode Cypress

Aug 2024 – Apr 2025

Lead Instructor

  • Instructed 48 K-12 students in TensorFlow, web development, game development, and other STEM topics.
  • Promoted from Lab Mentor to Lead Instructor within the first month for demonstrated leadership.

Projects

Upright Sensor Module

Sep 2025 – May 2026

Longhorn Racing (Formula SAE)

  • Designed four 4-layer PCBs integrating 4 Hall effect sensors, a 6-axis IMU, and a CAN transceiver on a single MCU.
  • Wrote bare-metal firmware for sensor sampling, CAN message packing, and transmission at 1 kHz.
KiCadCCAN BusARM CortexIMU
Upright Sensor Module: Technical Report.pdf
Open Report ↗

2-Axis FOC Gimbal Stabilizer

In progress

Personal Project

May 2026 – Present

  • Laying out a 4-layer KiCad PCB: STM32G4, dual DRV8302 gate drivers, 12 N-channel MOSFETs, AS5047P magnetic encoders, ICM-42688 IMU, black soldermask ENIG finish.
  • Implementing full FOC from scratch in bare-metal C, writing Clarke/Park transforms, SVPWM generation at 20 kHz via hardware timer interrupt, and cascaded PID for velocity and current loops.
  • Building a complementary filter for roll/pitch attitude estimation and a telemetry pipeline (UART → RPi Zero 2W → MQTT → Grafana) to stream phase currents, rotor angle, and gimbal state live.
STM32G4KiCadCFOCSVPWMIMUMQTTGrafana

Game Box v1.0

Apr 2026

UT Embedded Systems

  • Designed a custom-PCB handheld game console: TI MSPM0G3507, ST7735 LCD, R-2R DAC, joystick, SD card.
  • Built an SD-card game loader with interrupt-driven sampled audio and sprite rendering engine.
CTI MSPM0G3507ST7735R-2R DACSPI

Facial Recognition Device

Apr – May 2025

Multi-MCU System

  • Built a 3-MCU face-tracking device with ML classification, servo pan/tilt, TFT display, and joystick override.
  • Designed the UART protocol coordinating vision, classification, and motion across microcontrollers.
TensorFlow LiteCPythonUARTServo Control

Stream-Based Malware Detection

2024

Texas A&M Research

  • Built a security analysis pipeline with 35+ YARA rules, SBOM generation via Dependency-Track, and Plotly dashboards.
  • Conducted longitudinal studies tracking security posture changes across open-source repositories.
PythonYARADependency-TrackPlotlyML

Skills

Hardware

STM32KiCadRapidHarnessPCB DesignSolderingOscilloscope

Protocols

CAN BusUARTSPIADCRTOSVerilog

Languages

CC++PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaSQL

Frameworks

TensorFlowReact NativeFlutterFirebaseSupabaseSQLAlchemyPlotlyPandas