Varsity Women's Club

Member Spotlight, AI that reads minds, and an ACS hiring day in Austin.

★ Member Spotlight

From the Boat to the Building Robots

Charlotte Winn rowed for UCLA and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. Four months ago, she took a new seat: Associate Mechanical Engineer at Allen Control Systems (ACS).

Here's the part we're proud of: Charlotte didn't find this role through a job board or a cold application. She found it in the room. She met the ACS team at a VWC event, had a real conversation with the people actually building the technology, and turned that connection into an offer. No résumé black hole, no waiting to hear back. Just an athlete and a hiring team who recognized each other's caliber face to face.

That's the whole thesis in one story. Elite women athletes carry exactly the traits high-growth companies are desperate for: discipline, coachability, the ability to perform under pressure and keep improving rep after rep. Those traits don't always show up on a traditional résumé. Put the right athlete in the right room, and the hire makes itself.

Congrats, Charlotte. Go build something that matters.

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Allen Control Systems is a defense startup founded by two ex-Navy electrical engineers, with two prior ventures acquired for a combined $180M. They build small, autonomous systems that use computer vision and advanced controls to counter drones, and they're scaling from R&D into full production. Translation: they're standing up a world-class manufacturing team right now.

This isn't a typical job fair. You'll see the technology up close, meet the engineers and builders creating it, learn how your skills map to the mission, and be eligible for an expedited interview process.

Hiring · 1st, 2nd & Weekend Shifts

If you take pride in working with your hands, building real hardware, and solving hard problems, this is your shot to be part of something mission-critical. Charlotte found her seat at an ACS event. The next one could be yours.

On Our Radar

AI Just Learned to Read Your Mind (Kind Of)

If you needed one more reason to get fluent in AI this summer, Meta just handed it to us.

This week Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive brain-to-text system that decodes typed sentences straight from brain activity. No surgery, no implants. It reads magnetic signals from outside the head using an MEG scanner and reconstructs what someone intended to type, in real time. The underlying research is published in Nature Neuroscience.

The numbers are the headline. Meta reports the new system hit an average of 61% word accuracy, and up to 78% for the best participant, compared with roughly 8% for previous non-invasive approaches. The goal isn't sci-fi. It's giving a voice back to the millions of people with brain injuries or neurological conditions who can't communicate.

Why we're flagging it for the VWC community: buried in the research is a detail that should sound familiar if you're in Agent Camp. Per Meta, automated AI agents were used to explore and tune the decoding pipeline before the engineers locked in the final setup. Agents aren't just chatbots anymore. They're doing real R&D work, right now, on frontier problems. That's exactly the muscle we're building this summer.

Open Roles

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