# Ahmad Rahmati > Wireless Connectivity & Embedded Systems Architect Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ahmadrahmati Over 15 years of experience designing, developing, and standardizing mobile and embedded systems and protocols. Skilled in driving innovation across the product lifecycle — from strategy and requirements to architecture, implementation, optimization, lab/field evaluation, and global standardization in alliances such as CSA and FiRa. Deep understanding of end-to-end hardware and software system design, solving cross-functional challenges to bring ideas to life. • Connectivity: Expert in UWB ranging, Bluetooth (Classic, BLE, audio, discovery, Channel Sounding), NFC, WiFi, cellular, TCP/IP, and CoEx. Proven ability to drive and deliver interdisciplinary applications, specifications, and standards, while optimizing, troubleshooting, and developing SW solutions for HW challenges — from the MAC to the application layer • Architecture: Strong track record of architecting solutions that balance technical excellence with business needs and user experience, with a focus on performance, power, coexistence with other features and radios, and privacy • Feasibility: Proficient in leading feasibility studies, prototyping new features, and evaluating them in the lab and field • Physical Access Control: Industry authority with expertise in ranging technologies (e.g. UWB, BT CS), NFC, credentialing, and security standards (e.g. Aliro). Led initiatives to define and execute Android asymmetric and handsfree access roadmap • Power & Performance: Expert in system power profiling, modeling, optimization, and battery systems. Demonstrated leadership in driving power-conscious designs for mobile and embedded systems • Context-Aware Computing: Proven ability to harness sensing, large-scale data analysis, and machine learning to deliver next-generation solutions that enhance user experience and efficiency • Human-Factors Engineering: Champion for privacy-aware user studies and human-centered system design • Platforms: Expert in Android and iOS ecosystems, embedded systems, sensors, microcontrollers, and interfaces • Tools: Proficient in Python, C/C++, Java, Kotlin, Obj-C, SQL, Perl, LLMs, Matlab, Wireshark, R, and Lab equipment (e.g. sniffer, channel simulator, spectrum / network analyzer, power measurement) • 10+ patents, 30+ papers (including 10+ in journals) with 3k+ citations ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Android Connectivity and Standardization Lead, 2022 - present • Responsible for end-to-end system design and standardization of UWB and Bluetooth features for engineering and product, while advising senior leadership on strategic initiatives • Lead for architecture, standardization, and protocol implementation of the cross-functional CSA/Aliro physical access control standard, working with the Android Wallet team for credentials/provisioning. Launching in 2025 • Lead architect for UWB ranging, and serving as Google’s primary delegate for standardization at the FiRa Consortium Android Context / CHRE / CHPP Lead, 2019 - 2021 • Led efforts to enhance the CHRE platform, which runs on a low-power Always-On Coprocessor (AOC) and enables efficient sensing and context-aware applications on Android devices (e.g. Activity Detection, Crash Detection) • Power lead for CHRE, achieving a 15% power saving by co-optimizing memory and processor speeds to workload • Lead the design and implementation of the Context Hub Peripheral Protocol (CHPP) from the ground up. CHPP runs on CHRE and its peripherals (e.g. WiFi/BT, modem, GNSS chips), enabling CHRE to scale from same-chip architectures to the broader Android ecosystem, balancing scalability with resource constraints of internal/external stakeholders ### Senior Wireless SW Engineer @ Apple Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Bluetooth audio lead, pushing the envelope of BT SIG on hosts (iOS, watchOS, etc.) and accessories (AirPods, etc.). Achieved close-to-lossless audio quality in favorable RF and over 10x reliability in adverse RF conditions while maintaining battery life by designing & delivering cross-functional features such as link-adaptive bitrate and packet types, packet-size-optimized VBR, adaptive ePA TX power, antenna diversity / beamforming algorithms, and cross-layer power optimizations • OTA airtime, discovery, and audio simulation, measurement, and optimization across BT/BLE/WiFi applications, including A2DP (including low latency / spatial audio), HFP, AirDrop, AirPlay, and AWDL peer-to-peer (~NAN) WiFi, working with Audio, Codec, DSP, SEG (Silicon Eng), RF, Antenna, and Human Factors teams • Lead for Bluetooth/WiFi demo feasibility and performance validation for new product announcement events ### Senior Staff Scientist @ Broadcom Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area • Designed and delivered custom HW/SW systems and prototypes (e.g. a low-cost RF coexistence testing platform using off the shelf hardware and scripting costing < $2K each vs. $10s of K commercial solutions) • Developed and evaluated LTE/WLAN/Bluetooth selection, interworking, and co-existence mechanisms for Broadcom LTE R10 solutions (TDD/FDD IDC, in/out-of-band interference/harmonics/IM3; BT-SIG/WCI-2, GPIO interfaces) • 3GPP LTE and WiFi interworking functional specification, system design, and standards (SA2, CT1), encompassing operator requirements (WLAN interworking, ANDSF, WLAN_NS, Hotspot 2.0, RCS, ProSe, WiFi offloading, VoLTE) ### Research Assistant @ Rice University Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Houston, Texas Area • Led the HW / SW design and implementation of the Rice Orbit Sensor Platform, an open source Bluetooth body area platform (e.g. smartwatch, motion sensing, medical / ECG health monitoring applications). Used by collaborators in academia and industry. • Utilized statistical learning on contextual information for predicting iPhone app usage / call usage / WiFi connectivity. • Improved performance and usability of smarphones through sensing, network selection, and predictive energy management. • Privacy-aware, long-term smartphone usage data collection and analysis, revealing long-term evolution of smartphone adoption / usage, including the impact of socioeconomic status. ### Research Intern @ Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab USA Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area System to enable and select between cellular and WiFi networks on Android based on predicted network conditions & device usage ### Research Intern @ Motorola Labs Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Developed & demoed an FM Radio / RDS data transfer solution for featurephones enabling pervasive applications and social networking ### Research Intern @ AT&T Labs - Research Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Greater New York City Area Developed RFID object tracking system, measured and proved effectiveness of redundancy techniques on RFID ### Developer @ Resaneh Pouya Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Tehran Telecine System (digitizing movie film): Designed and productized the custom PC interface / controller Movie Audio Synchronizer: Developed custom HW/SW solution to play digital audio in sync over a long stretch of 35mm film ## Education ### Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Rice University ### M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering Rice University ### B.Sc. in Computer Engineering Aryamehr University of Technology ### High School Diploma Allameh Helli ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahmadr - Portfolio: http://ahmad.rahmati.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ahmadrahmati JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ahmadrahmati/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12