Navigated to First Principles, SpaceX Lessons, and the Future of PCB Design with AI

First Principles, SpaceX Lessons, and the Future of PCB Design with AI

September 16
54 mins

Episode Description

What happens when a SpaceX engineer takes on one of the toughest problems in electronics?

In this episode, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko shares how first-principles thinking and lessons from his time at SpaceX led him to tackle the decades-old bottleneck in PCB design: manual layout.

From his triple major at Berkeley to building avionics for Falcon 9, Sergiy brings unique insights into why auto-routers failed, how reinforcement learning changes the game, and what the future of PCB design with AI might look like.

🔗 Learn more: Quilter.ai 

🔗 Connect with Sergiy on LinkedIn 

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