Sharon Xu
Founder @ Breaking CAD & Founder’s Circle (500+ NYC Builders) | Physical AI & Robotics | Ex-Indigo Ag, TripAdvisor, MIT
- Role
- Ai Research Engineer at Breaking Cad
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sharon Xu
The best AI systems in the world still can\'t pick up a wrench.I spent years shipping production ML at scale at Indigo Ag and TripAdvisor, but I found that building a company is the hardest engineering problem of all. It is lonely, chaotic, and impossible to solve in isolation. We need a tribe to survive the 0-to-1 journey.That is why I started Founder\'s Circle, a community of 500+ builders in NYC grounded in reciprocity, not equity. We trade strategy, war stories, and advice on everything from GTM to hardware fabrication.Now, I am pivoting from pure research and software and applying that builder mindset to Breaking CAD (yes, I know, don\'t tell AMC 🧪).It is effectively my personal sandbox for projects in the physical AI space- Vibe CAD: An AI-native workflow generating manufacture-ready files from images and natural language- Hardware: Building an open-source mobile manipulator, custom CNC XY plotter, IoT home system, and more.I build in public. If you are into robotics, physical AI, or just navigating the startup grind, let\'s connect.See what I\'m working on at breakingcad.ai! Join the Community- Discord: discord.gg/k8EphpDzM8 - Events Calendar: lu.ma/founders-circle-nyc
Experience
Ai Research Engineer
Dec 2025 — Present · Brooklyn, NY, US
Exploring the future of AI, industrial design, and fabrication.
Education
UCLA
Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics
2012 — 2016
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master's (SM), Operations Research
2016 — 2018
Skills
- Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Analytics
- Python
- R
- Data Analysis
- Deep Learning
- Pig
- Nlp
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