# Mohammad Malik > Senior Electrical Engineer Location: Redmond, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mohammadmalik Over a decade of experience in electrical design, prototyping, debugging and validation. Experience in designing consumer products such as Xbox, Surface Laptops, Cameras, AR/VR technologies and now broadband satellite communication system. I enjoy all spectrum of electrical related discipline. Always learning, adapting, and shifting to demands at hand. My dream is to create an industry-wide impact in areas of electrical technologies. ## Work Experience ### Electrical Design Lead (Kuiper) @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present Hardware electrical design for Kuiper broadband satellite internet constellation (payload). ### Senior Hardware Technologist II (Mixed Reality) @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Prototyped electrical boards and flexible printed circuits (FPC) for face/eye tracking using capacitive sensing technology. Capacitive channel optimization using ANSYS Q3D. Oversaw and reviewed schematic and layout design. Lead Electrical Requirement Specification for Custom ASIC capacitive solution. Managed four PhD summer interns for projects related to radar and capacitive sensing technology. Radar based object detection development and characterization using trilateration and phase unwrapping technique. Modelled RF Active Reflector design (Van Atta Array, Negative Resistance circuit). ### Senior Electrical Dev Engineer - Camera Design (Surface) @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Designed and shipped cameras on Surface Duo 2 mobile phone and Surface Laptop 4. Sole EE design engineer for Microsoft Surface, oversaw all camera electrical design and validations. Design and shipped (7) cameras in one year. Designed camera development boards for enabling early camera firmware development. Camera RFPC Design, Power, High-Speed Signaling Simulations (D-PHY, C-PHY), Flex Design, EMI, RF de-sense, Magnetics, SI, PI Simulations (ANSYS HFSS) ### Electrical Engineer II - Power and Signal Integrity (Surface) @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Redmond Owned PCIe Signal Integrity between Skylake and Nvidia DGPU, SSD for Surfacebook product line. Validated Intel CPU power sequencing. Part of first Microsoft ODM Product: Surface GO. Owned USB Type-C validation Owned SSD subsystem on Surface Studio, Surface Laptop, and Surface Duo products. Characterized power consumption across various user scenarios across multiple memory vendors and capacities. ### Electrical Dev Engineer (Xbox) @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Redmond Owned and shipped IR communication and eMMC subsystem on Xbox One and Xbox One S Executed on Xbox One S schematics, and produced BOMs. Wrote eMMC protocol decoder in Perl language from scratch and verified speed for various R/W IO patterns. Conducted PDN, circuit analysis and validation for Infrared communication. ### Hardware Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Redmond Design and implement hardware architecture for consumer acceptance test system using LabVIEW and modified XBOX controller circuitry to stimulate user scenarios. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering - Design of Integrated Circuits UCLA Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering - Fabrication of Integrated Circuits University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mmmalik0 - Portfolio: http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/landing/universityprogram/prize.htm - Portfolio: http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1390 - Portfolio: http://www.microsoft.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/mohammadmalik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mohammadmalik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30