# Simo Alberti > Product Design Engineering Manager at Reality Labs Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/simo Ambitious Product Design Engineering leader fueled by optimism and driven by passion with a healthy disregard for the impossible ## Work Experience ### Product Design Engineering Manager @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Building new teams to design the next generations of AI Glasses hardware ### Technical Lead, Product Design Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Designing the future of AI Glasses, previously Wrist Wearables ### Product Lead, Product Design Engineer @ Lime Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States ▪ Joined Lime to build a world class Hardware team from the ground up to deliver high quality EVs ▪ Implementing processes and tools to set up the product design team for success, from PLM systems to building out a new hardware specific facility ▪ Leading vehicle architecture definition for several hardware platforms in different vehicle categories ▪ Built collaborations with existing teams to develop models to analyze impact of hardware architecture decisions to Lime’s bottom line business metrics around the world to enable data driven designs ### Vehicle Lead, Product Design Engineer @ Boosted, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States ▪ Lead the vehicle architecture and product design of Boosted’s next vehicle platform in a new form factor category, the company’s most complex and ambitious vehicle to date ▪ Defined vehicle architecture, engineering and product requirements, and core technologies from the concept phase by closely collaborating with the product, industrial design, and regulatory teams ▪ Lead a team of 6-8 engineers designing components and integration, building high quality rideable prototypes, and exploring new technologies ### Product Design Engineer @ Boosted, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California ▪ Owned the design of the handlebar assembly of the 25 mph capable Boosted Rev scooter which includes critical UX points, such as the throttle and display, and critical structural components ▪ Drove the design from ID concept to production and assembly in China in a compressed timeline of 10 months (to PVT) with limited internal resources available for support ▪ Sourced and managed several full time engineering contractors and consultants with specific skill sets needed to design custom components for the handlebar assembly ▪ Designed parts for overmolding, ultrasonic welding, forging, precision CNC, water ingress protection ### Technical Lead, Mechanical Design Engineer @ Primus Power Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Silicon Valley ▪ Own design from R&D and prototyping to supplier development and manufacturing of stack assembly, one of two major subsystems for the 125 kWh EnergyPod flow battery. Accounts for over 50% of the product BOM cost and includes majority of IP, consists of ~100 unique P/N (4000+ total parts) ▪ Performing DFM and qualifying suppliers for a variety of high volume manufacturing methods including laser welding, injection molding, progressive die stamping, surface texturing, etc. ▪ Reduced cost of the stack assembly by 25-35% with each release phase by implementing high volume manufacturing processes and developing new suppliers in the US and Asia ▪ Supporting the test engineering team with computational fluid, electrical, thermal, and structural analysis to further the understanding and improve the design of the electromechanical cell ### Technical Project Manager (TPM / EPM) @ Primus Power Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Silicon Valley ▪ Stepped into Project Manager role assuming responsibility for planning and scheduling engineering phases as the battery is brought to market, while maintaining design engineering duties ▪ Planning production schedules of critical components and driving supplier ramp rates, running schedule mtgs to define priorities and action items for buyers and supplier engineer to fulfill orders ▪ Defining configurations of release phases to include design improvements and cost reductions to meet expectations of the very first customers ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Primus Power Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Silicon Valley ▪ Responsible for the critical electrode asy design (25% of BOM cost), prototyping, manufacturing, quality control, and supplier management for the 1 st generation demonstration design ▪ Redesigned, starting from whiteboard concepts, the electrode asy for the 2nd generation battery, reducing cost by 85% while improving storage capacity and scalability to bring product to market ▪ Performed R&D design iterations with conception to prototype to test cycles of a week or less ### Graduate Research, Scheffler Solar Concentrator @ California Polytechnic State University Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Luis Obispo, California Area ▪ Designed, built, and tested a new solar concentrator technology with target production cost of $100 ▪ Project leader and advisor for groups of interdisciplinary students working on their senior projects ▪ Coded dynamic and optic simulations of the reflector in Matlab to improve the design and tolerances ▪ Crafted a foam mold using CNC to manufacture 2m2 composites solar reflectors inexpensively ### Executive Board, Orientation Programs @ California Polytechnic State University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Luis Obispo, California Area ▪ Responsible, with 6 other student leaders, to plan and execute two of the largest student run orientation programs in the nation, for 4300+ new students and 4300+ parents ▪ Rigorously selected, mentored, and led a team of 60 students to accomplish our goal for 9 months ▪ Effectively managed 16 students working on multiple projects on the Multimedia and the Marketing & Communications committees, and interacted with suppliers while placing orders totaling $150,000 ▪ Designed and led 10-week workshops to train 800+ leaders ▪ Worked/volunteered 30-60 hours a week for 13 months as an Executive Board member ### Propulsion Integration Lead, AIAA Aircraft Design Cmpetition @ California Polytechnic State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Luis Obispo, California Area ▪ Placed 2nd overall in AIAA national competition ▪ Designed a 737/A320 replacement aircraft for AIAA competition in a multidisciplinary team of 7 ▪ Ideated and integrated an original three engine configuration with boundary layer ingestion ▪ Wrote Matlab code for drag polar, engine deck, constraint diagrams and optimization routines ▪ Presented in design reviews at Boeing Commercial and Phantom Works, Northrop Grumman, Edwards AFB ▪ Dedicated 10-50 hours a week for an entire school year to the project ### Motorcycle Engineer Intern (Summers) @ a.Engineering srl Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | Milan Area, Italy A motorcycle engineering firm which supervised the development of the first all-electric motorcycle, the first carbon fiber dirt bike, and motorcycles for Husqvarna, Aprilia and Honda. ▪ With great precision, tuned motorcycle handling by modifying fundamental geometries. ▪ Finalized the design, assembled components, and tested the Aprilia ETV 1000 Mana prototype ▪ Assisted in the development and testing of the first street-legal all electric motorcycle, the Vectrix VX-1, and the SCAM Light Tactical Vehicle truck ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Mechanical Engineering California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### B.S. (all upper-division coursework except senior project) in Physics California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Aerospace Engineering California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ### IB in International Baccalaureate American School of Milan ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simoalb88 --- Source: https://flows.cv/simo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/simo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13