Software Engineering @ RIT / Former xAI

Michael
Camerato.

Full-stack software engineer bringing ideas to life

Former xAI employee with experience shaping RLHF evaluation workflows for Grok Voice, developing full-stack software, and solving complex engineering problems.

01Selected work

My Work

Professional systems, production debugging, practical automation, and embedded audio—each project shows a different part of how I think.

02Experience

Hands-on experience with frontier AI.

Direct experience with leading AI companies, focusing on evaluation strategy, quality systems, technical review, and working closely with model developers.

01November 2024 — November 2025

xAI

AI Tutor - Voice/Audio

Remote / Contract

Helped design and refine the RLHF pipeline for Grok’s voice model team of software and audio engineers. Worked with engineering leads and researchers on data-collection strategy, evaluation criteria, quality assurance, reviewer workflows, and audio-quality standards.

  • Contributed to rubric design, model-response evaluation, reviewer calibration, and scalable validation systems.
  • Evaluated voice output for naturalness, intelligibility, room noise, clicks, clipping, distortion, loudness consistency, and other perceptual defects.
  • Identified model failure modes and helped improve evaluation consistency across large-scale review workflows.
  • Contributed to Grok feature-development efforts for the X platform and standalone application while maintaining consistently strong quality scores.
  • Grok Voice
  • RLHF
  • Evaluation strategy
  • Audio QA
  • Workflow design
02May 2024 — November 2024

Scale AI

Coding Expert for AI Training

Remote / Contract

Contributed to Meta AI model evaluation through Scale AI by developing challenging programming tasks, analyzing model responses, identifying inaccuracies, and providing detailed feedback.

  • Applied software-engineering knowledge to supervised-learning and structured evaluation workflows.
  • Tested coding and reasoning performance, documented failure modes, and recommended concrete improvements.
  • Meta AI
  • Model evaluation
  • Prompt design
  • Error analysis

03Engineering foundation

My studies and technical foundation

In my five years studying software engineering at RIT, I've built a foundation that's hard to compete with.

Rochester Institute of Technology

B.S. Software Engineering

Final year of RIT’s five-year Software Engineering program.

August 2021 — December 2026 / Rochester, NY
01

Software Design

Architecture, object-oriented design, patterns, subsystem boundaries, maintainability, scalability, and technical tradeoffs.

  • Architecture
  • Design patterns
  • Requirements
  • Testing
02

Algorithms & CS

Data structures, runtime analysis, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, search, logic, and correctness.

  • Graphs
  • Dynamic programming
  • A* / BFS
  • Runtime analysis
03

Web & Databases

Responsive interfaces, REST services, database-backed applications, API integration, and full-stack systems.

  • React / Next.js
  • Angular
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
04

Systems & Delivery

Embedded programming, production debugging, containers, remote deployment, environment configuration, and secure systems thinking.

  • C / C++
  • Docker
  • Linux / SSH
  • STM32

Languages

  • Java
  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

Web & data

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Angular
  • REST APIs
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB

DevOps & tools

  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Git
  • Linux
  • SSH
  • DigitalOcean

AI & quality

  • Model evaluation
  • RLHF
  • Rubric design
  • Voice AI
  • Gen AI

04Voice AI & evaluation

Training for and evaluating naturalness in synthesized voice models

Voice models have two products at once: the behavior of the model and the quality of the audio. My background in both software and audio engineering lets me reason about both.

Input / Raw Voice SampleEvaluation PassOutput / Calibrated
NoiseClippingArtifactsProsodyIntelligibilityNaturalness
01

Model behavior

  • Instruction following
  • Naturalness and relevance
  • Conversational consistency
  • Comparative evaluation
  • Failure-mode analysis
02

Audio quality

  • Noise, clicks, clipping, and other sound artifacts
  • Distortion and loudness
  • Pronunciation and prosody
  • Intelligibility
  • Speaker consistency
03

Evaluation systems

  • Rubrics and guidelines
  • Reviewer calibration
  • Error taxonomies
  • Quality-control sampling
  • Scalable review workflows

05About

My background

I’m a fifth-year software engineering student at Rochester Institute of Technology with experience across AI evaluation, software design, web development, machine learning, embedded systems, audio engineering, and more.

At xAI, I helped refine evaluation and quality workflows for Grok Voice, working alongside software and audio engineers, engineering leads, and researchers. At Scale AI, I applied programming knowledge to model evaluation work supporting Meta AI.

Outside those roles, I’ve built full-stack applications, automation tools, and embedded audio systems using Python, Java, C, C++, TypeScript, SQL, Docker, and modern web frameworks.

I’m looking for software engineering work where careful implementation, strong quality standards, and expert-level problem solving all matter.

Let's build something together.

Have an idea?

camerato91703@gmail.com