Summary
Yvonne Li is a product design engineer based in Sunnyvale with seven years of hands-on experience bridging mechanical design, robotics research, and hardware product development. Currently at Google, she brings a strong background in FEA, topology optimization, and rapid prototyping from her work building a wheel-legged biped and leading technical teams at USC. Her internships at Google and Astra show practical expertise in reliability testing, adhesives for wearable architecture, avionics test stands, and PCB workflows, complemented by CAD and additive manufacturing fluency. Yvonne’s projects consistently focus on reducing failure modes—evidenced by a 90% reduction in belt slippage through iterative pulley prototyping—and she has a track record of translating lab research into buildable, testable hardware. Though primarily mechanical, her GitHub ties to cloud AI platforms hint at an emerging interest in combining cloud-enabled tools with physical product systems.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cupertino High School
Chinese, English, Spanish