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Stam Athiniotis

Critic · DISC type C
Senior Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Stam Athiniotis is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Teslas Autopilot division, specializing in autonomous navigation and motion planning. A Carnegie Mellon robotics graduate, he has a proven history of designing and implementing full autonomy systems. Colleagues describe him as talented, hard-working, and dedicated.

Outside of work, Stam was a member of the Carnegie Mellon club basketball team. He has also collaborated on unique academic projects, including designing the electronics and control systems for an underwater, penguin-inspired robot, showcasing his passion for hands-on engineering and bio-inspired design.

During his masters degree, he played club basketball and was known by the nickname "The Greek Freak".

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Senior Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer
Job Level
Middle
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Stam shows up

ROI Driven
Precise
Objective Thinker

They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others. It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms. They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions.

Priorities

Topics Stam cares about

Autonomous Navigation
His entire career is focused on solving autonomous navigation, from unmanned vehicles and surgical robots to his current role developing Tesla's Autopilot.
Motion Planning
A core area of his expertise where he has redesigned vehicle behavior logic at Argo AI and focused his graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Senior Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer
Tesla
2-2023 - 3-2024
Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer
Tesla
10-2021 - 11-2022
Software Engineer II, Motion Planning
Argo AI
1-2020 - 10-2021
Head of Intelligent Navigation
Third Insight, Inc.
6-2019 - 8-2019
Autonomous Technology Group Intern – Behavior/Path Planning
Daimler Trucks North America
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Media appearances

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Education
2018 - 2019
Master of Science - MS
Carnegie Mellon University
2013 - 2018
Bachelor of Science - BS & Master of Science - MS
National Technical University of Athens
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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