# Kevin Sheu > Senior Software Engineer at Waymo Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinsheu ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer, Perception Tech Lead @ Waymo Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area I’ve lead various efforts in perception to improve advanced vehicle understanding, such as: - E2E development of multi-task camera/lidar ML models - Model consolidation for onboard/offboard optimization - System-wide improvements for super long-tail action recognition (i.e. avoiding collisions) - Multi-frame foundation models & their applications - ML flywheel to enable rapid scaling in new cities I’ve collaborated with many folks in adjacent teams (Product, Planner, Eval, etc.), and also authored several patents. ### Senior Software Engineer, Perception @ Pony.ai Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Pony.ai is an international AV company that has driven over 20 million miles, with testing sites located in the US, China, Luxembourg, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. Pony.ai IPO'd on NASDAQ in Nov 2024. I was an engineer in the Fremont office, and developed all of the camera-based ML capabilities (both onboard/offboard systems). ### Software Engineer, Deep Learning/Computer Vision @ Mashgin Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area 10th hire at YC-backed startup (Winter 2015). Built automated checkout solutions using cutting-edge ML techniques, and on-device transaction processing services. Last valued at ~1.5B in Series B funding (May 2022). ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington, United States Worked on Alexa Voice Shopping ### Research Software Developer @ NIH Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area ### Cybersecurity Engineering Intern @ MITRE Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Security Clearance Level: Secret ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zynx Health Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles County, California, United States ### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, California, United States - Parallel Computing Laboratory - Transportation Research ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science UCLA ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinsheu --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinsheu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinsheu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23