3x founder
Jalaj Shukla
Co-Founder | Roboticist | Computer Vision | Mechatronics | GRASP Lab UPenn | Wharton | Y Combinator
Experience
Career
2026Intelligence Factory
Co-founderCo-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2025Dimensional
Member of Technical Staff - Robotics Manipulation and Controls · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – 2026
2025Blue Sky Robotics
Senior Robotics Software Engineer - Manipulation · North Carolina, United States · 2025
2025University of Pennsylvania
Research Assistant - Figueroa Lab, GRASP Lab · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2025
2024Ansys
Research and Development Software Engineer · United States · 2024
2024Applied Materials
Computer Vision Research Engineer · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2024
2023University of Pennsylvania
Research Assistant - GRASP Lab · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2023 – 2024
2021DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
Research Fellow · Pune, Maharashtra, India · 2021 – 2023
- 2020
Swabhoomi-Vayu Pvt. Ltd.
Co-founderCo-founder and Demand-based Consultant · Pune · 2020 – 2023
2020AERO2ASTRO
Propulsion Engineer (HOD- injectors/ igniters/ combustion chamber) · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 2020 – 2021
2020AERO2ASTRO
Propulsion Engineer · Pune, Maharashtra, India · 2020
2019DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
BE Project Intern · Pune, Maharashtra, India · 2019 – 2020
- 2018
IdeaFlare
FounderFounder · Pune · 2018 – 2019
2019Indian Railways
Intern · Pune, Maharashtra, India · 2019
2018Talent Battle
Campus Ambassador · Pune Area, India · 2018
Bio
Co-founder and CTO of Intelligence Factory - Unlocking Robotics Previously: MTS (Manipulation, VLA, Controls) at Dimensional, Sr. Robotics Engineer (Manipulation) at Blue Sky Robotics, CV Engineer at Applied Materials, R&D SWE at Ansys. MS in Robotics & Mechatronics from UPenn, GRASP Lab RA on multimodal manipulation policies. Earlier, worked as Research Fellow at DRDO, Ministry of Defence. Love cooking and exploring new places, active meditator and poet.