Brooke Becher
Staff Reporter at Built In
Expertise: Hardware and Robotics
Education: University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; California State University, Long Beach
Brooke Becher is a Built In staff reporter covering hardware and robotics. Based out of Los Angeles, she’s been writing culture features and reporting local news since 2014.
Becher holds a master’s degree in journalism and international human rights from the University of Lincoln, based in the United Kingdom, as well as a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communication from California State University, Long Beach. Her dissertation analyzed the nation’s narrative on rape culture through Western, online news media coverage, spanning the American political spectrum.
Past works are featured in LA Weekly, The Orange County Register, GOOD Magazine, Long Beach Press Telegram, California Business Journal and Los Angeles Magazine.
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As renewable energy and artificial intelligence push power grids to their limits, battery storage companies are racing to solve where all that electricity gets stored when demand suddenly spikes.
User interface designers are the digital-experience experts conditioning us how to click, tap, swipe and move through our favorite apps.
These engineers write the code that hardware reads before it can turn on.
Because someone has to make the robots, rockets and AI hardware actually work.
From airport tarmacs and hospitals to warehouse docks and late-night Waffle House shifts, Atlanta’s economy runs on part-time work.
Texas’ Silicon Hills still needs someone stocking shelves, loading trucks and covering the morning shift.
Cybersecurity engineers are basically digital locksmiths — except the burglars breaking entry are AI-powered and operating at a global scale.
Your future coworker might be a humanoid robot — and somebody has to teach it how to function properly.
The future of AI, electric vehicles and automation depends on someone figuring out how all of their electronic equipment works.
In Los Angeles, “part-time” can mean anything from scanning concert tickets at night to unloading freight before sunrise.
These hourly roles help workers make ends meet in one of America’s most expensive cities.
Computer vision engineers teach machines how to “see.” And some of the world’s biggest tech companies are paying top dollar for it.