Charles Chiau
About
Charles Chiau is from San Francisco Bay Area. Charles is currently Chief Technology Officer at Bedrock Ocean Exploration. In Charles's previous role as a Chief Executive Officer at Bedrock Ocean Exploration, Charles worked in until Apr 2026. Prior to joining Bedrock Ocean Exploration, Charles was a Principal Engineer / Founder at KaGe Labs LLC - Mechatronics Systems and Consulting and held the position of Principal Engineer / Founder at San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Charles was a System Integration Engineer at Reliable Robotics Corporation from Dec 2018 to Mar 2020. Charles started working as CTO at DeepFlight: High Performance Personal Submarines in May 2018. From Dec 2016 to Apr 2018, Charles was Engineering Director at DeepFlight: High Performance Personal Submarines. Prior to that, Charles was a Avionics Systems Integration Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies, based in Hawthorne Los Angeles from Mar 2013 to Dec 2015. Charles started working as Founder/Principal Engineer at Charles Chiau Engineering in Nov 2008.
You can find Charles Chiau's email at finalscout.com. FinalScout is a professional database with business professional profiles and company profiles.
Charles Chiau's current jobs
Re-imagining how we collect, manage, and explore seafloor data in order to lay the foundation to map, classify, and understand more of the secrets of our oceans.
Charles Chiau's past jobs
Orignially led the development and delivery of Bedrock's vertically integrated architecture, and a new world class vehicle generation from scratch. Now also focusing on strategic commercialization of this technology at scale.
Custom robotics designs, and internal R&D focusing on underwater robotic systems. Leveraging aerospace and marine experiences to create next generation marine robots for exploration, conservation, inspection, repair and maintenance. Projects include Submersibles, AUV, ROV, UAV, Drones, Robotic Manipulators, Augmented Reality, HUD, Short Range IR Mesh Networks, Lighting and Controls. FAA Part 107 Cerified Commercial Drone Pilot
Hands on system design, test, and integration of hardware and software systems on our aircraft. Performed trade studies, data review, flight operations, CAD, test plan development and implementation. HITL testing, simulation tests prior to flight, mayhem testing for faults
Merging advanced aerospace and marine technologies creating future generations of production level tourism submersibles, to bring more people underwater and explore easily by making access much more comfortable and accessible to all. "Taking you down with us". Built team, wrote embedded flight software, propulsion testing, performed sea trial qualification operations, delivered vehicle in 9 months, and chief pilot trainer to certify submersible pilots.
System Architecture, Project management, Design Reviews, Implementation, Testing and Production Plan. Integration of new technologies, and road map for future tourism vessels.
Avionics system design and integration for SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft - Water landing operations - Emergency backup systems - Audio / Video Systems - Pad Abort System - Ground Support Equipment Hardware testbed and bringup Electronics Simulation Device Testing
Now known as "KaGe Labs" starting 2016 Custom Design of prototyping robotics projects. Custom Software Design Custom Hardware Design Consultation Available Previous Projects: Delivered one fully functional Autonomous Under Water Vehicle, delivered to UC Berkeley Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems (CHESS).
Developing advance disruptive technologies in the medical and high DOF robotic manipulation systems for bomb disposal. Part of Engineering and Systems Group, Robotics Program and SRI International, Menlo Park.
We build custom manned submersibles for private, science and luxury adventures Deepflight Challenger 37000ft Submersible for Steve Fossett. Deepflight #2 SuperFalcon for Hawkes Ocean Technologies Deepflight #1 SuperFalcon for Tom Perkins - Maltese Falcon Ship DeepFlight Merlin (aka Necker Nymph) for Richard Branson
We are a spin off of DeepFlight Hawkes Ocean Technologies, now focusing on unmanned systems and next generation ROV for oil/gas/science/research/military. Designed base system architecture for next generation battery powered fiber optic ROV for BlueFin robotics lead support for electronics and Crew Chief of operations for Hawkes Ocean Technologies for manned submersible expeditions.
Electronics support on the Berkeley Lower Extremity ExoSkeleton (BLEEX) Project