# Alice Li

> Software Engineer at Watershed

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aliceli

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Watershed
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
I work on a backend platform team that owns Samsara's high-performance custom time-series database. We handle the end-to-end process of data ingestion, storage, and retrieval for all time-series data coming from Samsara's IOT devices. 

My role involves architecting scalable services, ensuring the complex services are reliable and performant, optimizing storage and retrieval mechanisms, and implementing various cost-saving measures.

### Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Embedded Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Autonomous Vehicle Simulation Intern @ Aptiv
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
• Developed a vehicle controller algorithm for a closed-loop autonomous vehicle simulation
• Improved overall usability of the simulation by testing and debugging in the Unity engine

### Embedded Software Engineer @ XStream Trucking
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Burlingame, California
• Designed and tested a surface mount PCB using Eagle CAD to consolidate existing modular circuitry 
• Implemented self-diagnostic software and streamlined existing state machine code for the Particle Electron

### Robotics Design Intern @ Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Sandtorstrasse 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
•     Designed a motor-driven camera safety system using PTC Creo that would track the movement of a robotic arm
•     Simulated several possible tracking motions of the camera system and the resulting velocities
•     Rapid prototyped a multi-part locking mechanism for a surgical robot using a 3D printer

### Research Intern @ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025
•     Designed and implemented a laser alignment system
•     Set up a MATLAB interface and feedback loop for a waveform generator

### Research Intern @ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025
• Worked on an ongoing project to modulate a laser beam using a digital micromirror device
• Developed MATLAB code to smooth out the beam intensity based on camera images
• Set up a laser system to test the digital micromirror device and MATLAB code on a small scale


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, focus in Mechatronics
Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alice-w-li

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Last updated: 2026-03-23