# Albert Shane

> Building robots / Alphabet - Waymo - Google X - Nest

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/albertshane

Albert is a design and engineering leader with a 20+ year record of distinguished projects driven by interests in multidisciplinary design, delivering technically demanding projects. Albert’s work employs innovative ideas that range from robotics, transportation, consumer design and wide variety of unique products. He values craft, as well as technology as agents of change in product development.

## Work Experience
### ID team Lead @ Aurora
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Building a fleet of self driving class 8 trucks

### Principal product architect @ Meta:space
Jan 2009 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Self employed. I provide clients with end - to - end design and engineering services in transportation, robotics and consumer electronics.
I help teams to  DISCOVER   -  DEFINE   -   DEVELOP    -    DELIVER

### ID Team Lead @ Alphabet Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
As part of the Alphabet family of companies I was able to transition between Waymo / Google X / Google -Nest and work on different projects with different teams.

### ID Team Lead @ Waymo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built new fleet of self driving vehicles.

### ID Team Lead @ X: The Moonshot Factory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built new fleet of self driving vehicles.

### ID Team Lead @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
NEST/GOOGLE  built connected/security home products

### Automotive Consultant @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built new fleet of self driving vehicles.

### Faculty @ Academy of Art University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Industrial Design Manager @ Faurecia
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

### Senior Industrial Designer @ Adient
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005

### Industrial Designer @ Magna
Jan 1994 – Jan 2000


## Education
### Design and Engineering
College for Creative Studies
Jan 1990 – Jan 1994


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-shane-8971965

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Last updated: 2026-04-07