# Justin Leong

> Senior Staff Product Design Engineer @ Meta • Hardware Architecture & Technical Leadership • Formerly Apple, Amazon, Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/justinleong

Product Design Engineer and Engineering Manager, designing next-generation AI-enabled wearables and premium consumer hardware at global scale—millions of devices shipped across Google, Apple, Amazon, and Meta. I combine hands-on technical leadership with empathy-driven people management and design-for-sustainability initiatives, shaping how high-volume hardware is built responsibly.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Engineering Lead, AI Glasses | Sustainability Product Architect @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present

### Product Design Engineering Manager, Design for Sustainability | Google Hardware @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Spearheaded an industry-first effort to approach product design of hardware from a sustainability standpoint - taking into account the environmental impacts (circularity, materials, emissions) when designing high volume consumer electronics.

### Product Design Engineering Lead/Manager | Google Nest @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021
Technical Lead, developing the architecture of complex, premium consumer devices and seeing it through mass production of millions of devices. People manager, developing the skillset and creating opportunities for PD/mechanical engineers on my team.

### Product Design Lead, Google VR @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Technical lead for future google AR/VR hardware, highly complex products from a technical (thermal, mechanical, electrical) and user-focused standpoint

### Product Design Lead and Architect @ Olio Devices
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Led the design, engineering, manufacturing of smart watch from inception to production in a startup environment, with a hardware team of 4. Company was acquired.

### Product Design Engineer @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Designed phones in a high pressure and visibility environment at Amazon.

### iPod/iPhone Product Design @ Apple
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Cupertino, CA

### Engineering Project Management @ Apple
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Cupertino, CA

### Mechanical Design @ BlackBerry
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinleong

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Last updated: 2026-04-13