Shariq Mobin

UC Berkeley PhD

Founder

2025Forward Deployed Engineer· Modal

Founder · since 2019

Company

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Role

Forward Deployed Engineer

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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AudioFocus

Hearing aids that work in noisy places, like restaurants, using ML.

Experience

Career

Modal
Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Modal
Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2025
2024
AudioFocus
Founder
CEO & Founder · Oakland, California, United States · 2019 – 2024
2019
AudioFocus
Deep Learning Research · Oakland, CA · 2019 – 2024
2019
AudioFocus
Clinical Research · Oakland, California, United States · 2023 – 2024
2023
AudioFocus
Firmware Engineer · Oakland, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2022
Y Combinator
Summer 2019 Cohort · 2019
2019
University of California, Berkeley
Neuroscience PhD · Berkeley, CA · 2015 – 2019
2015
Google
Research Engineer · Mountain View, CA · 2018
2018
Google
Research Engineer · Mountain View, CA · 2017
2017
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Scientific Researcher · UC Berkeley · 2014 – 2015
2014
Clustrix, Inc.
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011 – 2013
2011
BillFloat
Intern Software Engineer · 2010
2010

Machine Learning and Distributed Systems hacker. Accessibility advocate.