Summary
Peng Li is a Senior System Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening safety-critical systems, currently responsible for production safety at Zoox in Mountain View. His background spans security and system software roles at ByteDance, Baidu USA, Samsung Research America, and research positions dating back to a PhD at the University of Utah, giving him deep expertise at the intersection of security, research, and production engineering. He has moved between industry research labs and fast-paced product teams, translating academic rigor into practical safeguards for large-scale platforms. Known for blending low-level systems knowledge with applied security practices, he excels at designing audit-ready, resilient software for complex environments. A China-trained engineer with long-term US research experience, he brings a global perspective to system safety and threat mitigation.
11 years of coding experience