Zohaib Sheikh

ECE & Mathematics, Engineering Honors · UT Austin

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

zohaibsheikh@utexas.edu github.com/zohaib642 linkedin.com/in/zohaibsheikh62

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 CAN transceiver around an STM32 MCU.
Developed bare-metal C firmware for sensor sampling, CAN message packing, and 1 kHz transmission; compiled and debugged using STM32CubeIDE and ST-Link over SWD.

KiCadCCAN BusSTM32IMUSTM32CubeIDE

Upright Sensor Module: Technical Report.pdf

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BEVO (Board Emitting Vehicle Outputs)

In progress

Longhorn Racing (Formula SAE)

Aug 2026 – Present

Designing CM5-based telemetry PCB with 5G and GPS for real-time vehicle data transmission to a remote server.
Implementing CAN ingestion pipeline converting multi-priority bus traffic to SPI for CM5 processing, enabling concurrent SD card logging, cellular data streaming, and live Grafana dashboards.

CM55GGPSCAN BusSPIGrafana

Game Box v1.0

Apr 2026

UT Embedded Systems

Built a custom PCB handheld console featuring TI MSPM0G3507 MCU, ST7735 LCD, R-2R DAC, joystick, and SD card.
Programmed an SD card game loader with interrupt-driven audio sampling and sprite-based graphics rendering.

CTI MSPM0G3507ST7735R-2R DACSPI

Game Box v1.0.jpeg

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4-Digit Stopwatch

Spring 2026

Digital Logic Design – UT Austin

Designed and implemented a 4-digit countup/countdown stopwatch in Verilog on a Basys 3 FPGA, with increment, decrement, and synchronous reset controls mapped to onboard pushbuttons and slide switches.
Synthesized RTL design in Xilinx Vivado; drove 7-segment display with time-multiplexed scanning at 1 kHz refresh.

VerilogFPGABasys 3Xilinx VivadoRTL

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 all three 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

Experience

Baker Hughes

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Prev Intern at Baker Hughes

Designed and validated high-voltage inverter PCBs (2 per phase, 6 per drive) for the FusionPro VSD drive; DC-to-3-phase AC conversion for downhole ESP motors, reducing BOM cost by $25–40 per board (~$0.4M/year across ~1,200 drives).
Constructed full-system HIL simulation of VSD drive chain using Typhoon HIL with a network-integrated HMI for real-time monitoring, control, and system-level fault debugging.
Authored 4 Python scripts to automate test equipment interfacing and fault/edge-case validation across drive test phases.
Built Python automation tool (Tkinter, Pandas, FPDF) to parse 4–40 hours of per-second dyno datasets and auto-generate formatted test reports, reducing report creation time by 75–95% (from 10–40 hours to 1–8 hours).

Longhorn Racing (Formula SAE)

Sep 2025 – Present

Current

Embedded Systems Engineer

Owned end-to-end design of 4 Upright Sensor PCBs: schematic capture, layout, component selection, and board bring-up.
Validated Hall effect sensor hardware and debugged bare-metal firmware integration for wheel speed acquisition at 1 kHz.
Routed vehicle wire harness interconnecting 33 PCBs across 180+ meters of CAN bus and power wiring using RapidHarness.
Mounted and integrated 4 PCBs onto the vehicle with custom 3D-printed enclosures and internal CAN + power harnessing.

Texas A&M University

May 2024 – Apr 2026

Research Intern

Engineered ML-based malware detection pipeline with 35+ YARA rules; conducted longitudinal analysis of open-source repositories using SQLAlchemy and Plotly for data visualization.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Mar 2025, May 2026

Certified Technical Lead & Summer Externship

Led 2-sub-team MVP simulation at HPE HQ across data API integration and software development.
Shipped functional MVP on deadline; awarded HPE 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.