# Francesca Cox > Senior Software Engineer at Google Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/francescacox ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States ### Software Engineer III @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Graduate Teaching Assistant For Intelligent Multimodal User Inferfaces (6.835) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA - Write and grade assignments and projects. - Hold weekly office hours. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant for Artificial Intelligence (6.034) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA - Teach recitations to two classes of about 20 students each: review material from lectures, introduce new material, and walk through practice problems. - Help write, prepare, administer, and grade exams. - Hold weekly office hours ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Yahoo! Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, CA - Worked on a UI overhaul on the Advertising Platforms team, implementing new functionalities and components using Ember.js. - Implemented and tested a search bar for the advertiser campaign information grid, which filtered the grid as the user typed. - Implemented and tested an advanced filter on the same grid. Allowed the user to enter in a free-text human-readable query to filter the various columns of the grid. Detected errors and gave suggestions for filter parameters as the user typed. - (Company changed to Oath during employment) ### Gordon Engineering Leader @ Gordon Engineering Leadership Program Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA - Participate in selective MIT program that educates and prepares students to assume roles as engineering leaders in industry. - Engage in weekly experiential engineering leadership labs in sync with theoretical coursework that supplements students’ technical education. - Practice team membership and leadership during weekly labs. - Designed and built a speech recognition call-in phone system called Noble Voices that allows users to create verbal petitions and sign petitions using their unique phone numbers. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Artificial Intelligence (6.034) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA - Taught recitations to students: reviewed material from lectures, introduced new material, and covered practice problems. - Prepared, administered, and graded exams. - Held weekly office hours ### Vice President of Fraternity Development @ Massachusetts Gamma Chapter of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA - Oversee all fraternity traditions and ceremonies - Conduct fraternity heritage programming for the chapter of 134 women - Plan chapter-wide events such as Initiation of new members and Founders Day celebration - Direct several committees that help coordinate chapter events and maintain chapter history ### Vice President of Housing @ Massachusetts Gamma Chapter of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA - Provide a safe and comfortable living environment for 52 members living in the chapter house. - Direct committee of 8 sorority members; delegate roles to the committee members to efficiently improve the chapter house and its operations. - Participate in weekly Executive Council meetings to plan chapter events and to improve members’ sorority experiences. - Create new housing process for deciding which members of the sorority may live in the chapter house. - Negotiate terms of the chapter house lease with MIT on behalf of the chapter. - Administer a wide range of duties, including: negotiating chapter house lease; monitoring house facilities; administering rooming process in coordination with the MIT Residence Office and resolve rooming conflicts; organizing meals in the chapter house three times a week; administering house chores system; selecting house Graduate Resident Assistant. ### Recruitment Processes Chair @ Massachusetts Gamma Chapter of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA - Assisted Vice President of Membership in the process of recruiting new members to the chapter, resulting in 16 new recruits during Spring 2014 and 41 new recruits during Fall 2014. - Administered all technical processes during the recruitment process. - Managed a recruitment committee composed of four other sorority members. Delegated roles for these members so that the recruitment processes ran smoothly and efficiently. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA - Designed, implemented, and tested a new layout for Amazon products in a curated stream using JavaScript and CSS. - Developed a responsive, infinitely scrolling variable grid layout to replace the existing standard grid layout of products in Amazon's Interesting Finds. - Optimized program to run efficiently so that users can seamlessly scroll infinitely through the stream. - Participated in team code reviews, feedback sessions, and project planning. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Biology @ MIT Experimental Study Group (ESG) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA - Conducted weekly office hours to help students achieve in Introductory Biology by answering homework questions and explaining concepts. - Provided feedback to students and to the professor on student progress. - Graded students’ homework assignments. ### Hackathon Participant @ MIT Assistive Technologies Hackathon (ATHack) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA - Participated in multidisciplinary hackathon to raise awareness about the importance of building assistive technologies - Communicated with client to establish goals for building an in-mailbox mail-detection system for the blind - Worked in a team with two others to build a working prototype of a laser light detection based mail detection system ### Software Engineering Intern @ Duolingo Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Pittsburgh, PA - Worked on several projects to add new features to the Android app and improve the user experience as a member or Duolingo's app development team. - Used Java to implement new challenge types for Duolingo lessons as well as a sharable fluency score to the app. The addition of the challenge types increased the number of app uses by 2 to 3 percent each. - Conducted testing on all of my projects. - Participated in coworker code reviewing. - Developed a responsive design for the existing Duolingo for Schools splash page using CSS, so that it could be used on smaller screens, including mobile devices. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Sloan School of Management Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA - Assisted in the development and launch of “How the Next Generation can Secure the American Dream,” an edX course. - Researched opinions of young adults in order to create a video for the course. - Verified transcripts of course videos for course accessibility. - Created reports on relevant contemporary information to be used in the course. - Provided recommendations for representation and presentation of course materials. ### President of CICDO @ MIT Experimental Study Group (ESG) Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA - Directed student leadership committee, the Committee in Charge of Doing the Obvious (CICDO), which plans, organizes, and orchestrates events for the ESG learning community. Events I administered included student-alumni networking events and ESG community dinners, drawing 20 to 40 participants per event. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Biology @ MIT Experimental Study Group (ESG) Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA - Conducted weekly office hours to help students achieve in Introductory Biology by answering homework questions and explaining concepts. - Provided feedback to students and to the professor on student progress. - Graded students’ homework assignments. ### Student Researcher @ Spoken Language Systems at CSAIL at MIT Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA - Conducted a statistical analysis of the phonetic inventories of nearly 1000 world languages in order to discover trends across languages, and used this data to predict the phonetic inventories of unknown languages. - Created programs using Python that used various Bayesian probability models based on the data set in order to predict the phonemes in a language given a subset of the known phonemes in the language. ### Student Researcher @ Linguistics Department at MIT Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA - Used Perl scripts to calculate the number of syllables across words in different languages as evidence for a theory about midpoint pathology. ### Freshman Pre-Orientation Program Participant @ Discover Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Program Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA - Collaborated with two others in Lego ® robot building competition. - Created circuits for infrared sensors and constructed body structure for Lego® robot. - Placed second in competition testing design and programming of fourteen Lego® robots. ### Mathematics Tutor @ Private Tutor Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greenwich, CT - Tutored student in eighth grade mathematics, yielding increased academic achievement in school. - Coached student in taking the standardized New York State Regents Exam. ### Club Co-founder and Officer @ Wired Club Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Rye, NY - Oversaw arcade game restoration project. Delegated members to specific project roles. - Raised $4,500 for high school by donating finished arcade game project to high school annual auction. - Recruited nine members to the club. ### Shadow Student @ Corbin-Hillman Communications Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY - Observed the president of a public relations firm for a period of four days. - Sat in on conference calls and meetings. - Visited potential locations for presentation of new products to the media. ### Stage Manager and Assistant Director @ Fall Drama Theater Production Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Rye, NY - Oversaw production of: The Crucible (2010), Metamorphoses (2011), and Arsenic and Old Lace (2012). - Directed stagehand crew of five students. - Cataloged set pieces, props, and costumes. Recorded blocking, set changes, and lighting cues. Operated microphone systems. ### Senior Math Helper @ Carnegie Pollak Test Prep Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greenwich, CT - Taught classes of fifteen to twenty students each to master PSAT and SAT mathematics questions. ## Education ### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### High School School of the Holy Child ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/francescacox --- Source: https://flows.cv/francescacox JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/francescacox/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31