Summary
Liam Bucci is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and delivering safety-critical embedded systems for robotics and autonomous vehicles. He has led architecture and program direction at Cruise and Zoox, driving cross-functional safety processes based on ISO 26262 and defining C/C++ standards for high-assurance software. Liam’s hands-on background spans firmware, RTOS selection and bring-up, IPC and OS abstraction layers, and vehicle sensor data systems, enabling production-ready, low-maintenance deployments. He’s also scaled teams, mentored engineers, and routinely acted as a bar raiser in hiring and technical reviews. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends mechanical engineering roots with deep mechatronics and embedded expertise to tackle complex, multi-physics problems. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning rigorous safety requirements into pragmatic development templates and documentation that accelerate onboarding and cross-team alignment.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Irvine
English