Stephen Jia
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Jia is a software engineer with a decade of experience building performant machine learning and embedded systems, currently contributing to PyTorch Mobile at Facebook in New York. His background spans deep learning research and production optimization—from quantized model acceleration at NXP and NVIDIA to marketplace ranking and mobile ML deployment at Facebook. Trained in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation at University of Waterloo, he brings a systems-minded approach that blends hardware-aware optimization with practical software engineering. Stephen’s early roles in DSP, vision research, and data-driven fault recognition give him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency across embedded vision, model quantization, and large-scale ML infrastructure. He favors shipping production-ready solutions that bridge research and product, especially where constrained devices and efficiency are key. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle performance wins that compound at scale.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (28)
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
mobile10
embedded10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
pytorch8
python-interactive7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SS-JIA/executorch-1
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
End-to-end solution for enabling on-device AI across mobile and edge devices for PyTorch models
Contributions:113 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 1 month
SS-JIA/pytorch
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:140 pushes, 70 branches in 3 years 5 months
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
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