# Nishant Srinivasan

> Technical Lead, Product Design Engineering @ Meta

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

10+ years working and shipping consumer electronics (multiple 1st gen)
Experience with leading programs, managing teams, and detailed design at piece part and module level
Some areas I've worked in:
- Full mechanical system architecture, ownership and execution
- Electromechanical modules (Speakers, microphones, Haptics, Logic boards, FPCs)
- Antennas (Cellular, Wifi, B/T)
- Mechanisms (Hinges, latches, buttons, magnets)
- Biosensors (Heart rate (PPG), Electromyography (EMG))

## Work Experience
### Technical Lead, Product Design Engineering @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Wrist wearable products: Some things shipped, and some didn't.
Meta neural band (2025)

### Product Design Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Hardware: 1st gen wrist wearables, portal

Products launched:
- Portal TV (2019) - Custom full range audio module, System level sealing, lightbar, Structural internal housing plastic components
- Portal mini (2019)- Custom I/O stand, Drove ODM Supplier
- Portal 2nd gen (2019)- Custom I/O Stand, Drove ODM Supplier

Manufacturing process: Plastic Injection molding, Insert Molding, Sheetmetal, MIM, CNC, Forging

### Mechanical Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, Wa
Surface Devices: All-in-ones and Foldables 

Products Launched:
Surface Studio (2016): 
- Zero Gravity Hinge - Owned and designed novel counterbalance mechanisms to enable a one-of-kind user experience.
- Drove and delivered from concept to mass production

Surface Duo (2019): 
- Led the architecture and design of a mechanism/module for a new unique feature in a Gen 1 product.
- Complex FPC integration and routing for dual display architecture

Manufacturing processes: Die cast parts, MIM, sheet metal stamping, CNC, Springs, magnets

### Graduate Researcher @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Atlanta, Ga
Explored and developed pathways to enable high volume production for a biomedical device.
Thesis: Process development for microfeatures in optically transparent materials

- Worked with biomedical startup to enable a low cost & low unit production of microfluidics device
- Utilized CNC micromilling techniques to design, fabricate, and test mold cavities for casting and injection molding processes for optically transparent microfeatures.
- Developed multiphysics models to predict material removal rates for high aspect ratio microfeatures
- Published and presented 3 papers in peer reviewed institutions at global conferences

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, Wa
Xbox Accessories - Kinect and Controllers

### Mechanical Design Intern @ Dell
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Austin, Tx
Mechanical Engineering technology incubation team. Designed prototype laptop hinge reducing barrel diameter by 37%. (XPS12)

### HW Test Engineering Intern @ Texas Instruments
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dallas, Tx

### Product Development Intern @ Caterpillar Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Griffin, Ga

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Atlanta, Ga


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13