# Adam Bernstein > Interaction Designer | Prototyper Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adambernstein I am a hybrid engineer, designer, and artist. My work blends together code, design, and craft. ## Work Experience ### Human Interface Design @ Apple Jan 2024 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Hardware Design Lead @ Alchemica.AI Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Designing the modern lava lamp. ### Interaction Designer @ Archetype AI Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 Built a functional prototype using Newton - Archetype's foundational physical AI model. The model fused radar and microphone data to generate useful insights about context and user behavior. ### Senior Interaction Designer at ATAP @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 Designing and prototyping new concepts for Project Jacquard and Soli. ### Designer and Engineer @ Humanising Autonomy Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom Designing interactions between autonomous vehicles and pedestrians. www.humanisingautonomy.com ### Lead Design Engineer @ Benetech Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 As Product Manager and Prototype Engineer at Benetech, I focused on the Benetech Labs initiative, a process to experiment around innovation in each of our focus areas: Global Literacy, Human Rights, and the Environment. I focused on WASH (Water/Sanitation/Hygiene) in collaboration with Fundación AVINA in Latin America, building a mobile and web platform to gather data and generate diagnostics on community water organizations. ### Integration Engineer @ Better Place Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Early hire at Better Place R&D, followed the company from early stage startup to international launch. - Designed, prototyped, and created supply chain for several test bench designs for in-car telematics and charge spot testing equipment - Managed QA testing lab: procured equipment, mentored engineers with test designs and setups, led electric vehicle safety workshops - Wrote automation to simulate mass charge spot network scenarios and analyze failures ### Software Engineer and Interaction Designer @ Signs of Stroke Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Stanford, CA Worked on small team of doctors and engineers from Stanford BioDesign program to build innovative stroke detection mobile application and platform. -prototyped and built iPhone and web based applications to administer stroke test for high risk individuals -Venture Capital award and Agilent award for Best Senior Project in Electrical Engineering 2009 ### Engineering Intern @ Better Place Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Palo Alto, CA Collaborated with automotive contractors on specifications for electric vehicle designs ### Researcher Taylor Lab @ Stanford University Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | Stanford BIOX Cardiovascular Biomechanics research with application to innovation in heart surgery. -Second author on paper: Evaluation of a novel Y-shaped extracardiac Fontan baffle using computational fluid dynamics, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery -Created physiologically accurate 3D models of pulmonary vasculature from MRI image data ## Education ### BS in Electrical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 ### Master of Art (MA) in Design in Innovation Design Engineering Royal College of Art Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Master of Science (MSc) in Design Engineering in Innovation Design Engineering Imperial College London Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adbern --- Source: https://flows.cv/adambernstein JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adambernstein/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30