# Laura Sun

> Mechanical Engineering @ Stanford | Prev. @ SpaceX, Apple, Tesla

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

## Work Experience
### Course Assistant @ Stanford Product Realization Lab
Jan 2025 – Present

### Mechanical Design Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
• Drove enclosure design and integration of antenna components (Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, FM) in next-gen Tesla vehicle; designed parts and master assemblies in CAD, performing tolerance analysis and finite element analysis (FEA)
• Designed test experiments and conducted failure analysis to validate antenna performance after car crash
• Created 2D GD&T drawings for production inspection to ensure large-scale manufacturability and led design for manufacturing (DFM) reviews with injection molding and sheet metal suppliers
• Interfaced with vehicle integration, antenna, thermal, and electrical teams to integrate diverse technical requirements and maintain end-to-end product performance

### Manufacturing Design Intern @ Apple
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
• Led development of integrating first-ever additive manufactured parts (metal 3D printing & injection molding) into iPhone Air housing through prototype testing, statistical tolerance analysis, and parameter optimization - enabling reductions in cycle time (-33s), material waste (-6%), and cost (-$0.65) per part
• Designed test experiments and conducted failure analysis for laser welding, electrochemical etching, water ingress paths, part porosity, and material characteristics to ensure cohesive system integration
• Communicated daily with international vendors and 5+ internal teams, driving process optimization trials and refining inspection procedures to improve part dimensional quality

### Polar Rover & Rockets Team Member @ Stanford Student Space Initiative
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• Designing an autonomous, solar-powered, GPS waypoint navigation rover to test on Tahoe snow with the Polar Rover team
• Designed parachute launch and recovery system with Rockets Team
• Working with ArduPilot Rover software and Mission Planner as well as Raspberry Pi for visual processing
• Developing mechanical engineering skills such as CAD and design to create electronics housings, as well as electrical engineering skills such as soldering, installing motors and switches

### Product Engineering Intern @ SpaceX
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Hawthorne, California, United States
• Designed 2 fixtures for IC packaging in Siemens NX, created and tested 3 prototypes, and facilitated fixture manufacturing and integration into production line
• Developed and executed 10 week external solder paste print experiment, interfaced with suppliers to build units used downstream while identifying optimal mechanical parameters to improve print transfer efficiency by 31%
• Wrote solder paste inspection data processing script in Python, adding interaction plots, heat maps, and data summaries, enabling troubleshooting of paste printing process

### Engineering Research Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Stanford, California, United States
• Collaborated to design, create, and deploy 100 low-cost airtight greenhouse gas sensing modules in the Amazon, Indonesia, and Alaska, enabling new studies on diurnal plant-based emissions
• Iterated on outer packaging design in SolidWorks/Fusion 360 to reduce water damage from 50% to 12% of units
Created new calibration procedure & Python programs to analyze sensor data, improving sensor accuracy by 84%
• Developed Arduino firmware and embedded systems integration for data collection and operation of 20 Arduino gas logger prototypes

### Camp Instructor @ Camp Chawanakee
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Shaver Lake, California, United States
• Instructed youth (100/week) aged 10-17 in environmental science, plant/animal identification, astronomy
• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning

### Student Researcher @ Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program (ASDRP)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Fremont, California, United States
• Conducted literature reviews in environmental science and wildfire modeling & created representative graphs and charts alongside peers.
• Collected field samples and performed routine data analysis with mass spectrometer.
• Conducted independent research on wildfire modeling using GIS software & 10 years of data.
• Presented research at ASDRP Biology Symposium

### Marketing Team Lead @ Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council, Boy Scouts of America
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States
• Founding member of nationally-recognized media team
• Filmed and edited marketing videos for national events (20k attendees) and council fundraisers (>$4 mil raised in 2020)
• Featured Speaker, 2021 Western Region Marketing Conference


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University

### High School Diploma with High Honors
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/laura-sun-
- Website: https://laurasun.squarespace.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-08