# Qiurui (Charles) He

> AI Startup | Ex-Google, Ex-Waymo

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

A seasoned TL/M with a track record of driving cross-functional teams and landing cutting-edge AI/ML research, such as perception and generative models, in high-impact products, especially on compute-constrained platforms.

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead Manager @ Google
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Waymo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead
• Drive cross-functional efforts across Perception, Behavior, and System Engineering
• Own business-critical problem clusters: light rail, emergency vehicle interaction, map robustness, etc.
• Set directions for next-generation ML object tracking

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Researcher-engineer on computational photography in Google Research. Previously Software Engineer II, III.
• Shipped industry-leading camera features in Pixel phones: Night Sight, Astrophotography, Motion Mode, etc.
• Conducted & productized computer vision research on low-light imaging, depth, and autofocus
• Designed & implemented high-performance image processing pipelines
• Co-authored research papers in CVPR, ICCV, and SIGGRAPH

### Software Engineer II @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
Android platform engineering.
• Landed enterprise mobility management (EMM) APIs in Android 8 & 9 (10M+ MAU)
• Investigated & patched critical security vulnerabilities in Android 7.1, 8, & 9 (2.5B+ MAU)
• Collaborated with key OEMs & enterprise partners on 2 major features and 10+ cases

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
• Worked on a novel RGB-D long-exposure photography effect with Prof. William T. Freeman
• Co-authored MoSculp, a follow-up paper, which was published in UIST 2018 and featured on MIT's homepage

### Research Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
Learning-based frame selection for burst photography, Microsoft Research (MSR).

### Software Engineering Intern @ RealVNC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, United Kingdom


## Education
### BA / MEng in Information and Computer Engineering
University of Cambridge
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Cambridge-MIT Exchange in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### BEng (unfinished) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Tsinghua University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Shanghai High School
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/qiurui
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/qiurui/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-23