# Sofia Hornstein

> Product Design Engineer @ Meta Reality Labs

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sofiahornstein

Product-minded Engineer with experience developing next generation technology in wearables, data centers, health, and automotive. With a background in Mechanical Engineering from Duke, I excel at user-centric problem solving, creative innovation, and executing ideas from concept to market-ready products.

## Work Experience
### Product Design Engineer - Wearables @ Meta
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Product Design Engineer - Smart Glasses @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Driving design vision for a core component of next-generation smart glasses across 8+ teams, aligning Meta engineering, external partner industrial design, and Asia-based manufactures to bring product to market

### Program Engineer - Infrastructure Data Center Engineering @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed next-generation data centers for AI usage by aligning business, operations, and engineering priorities.
• Led cross-functional initiative with vendors to design and evaluate a custom heat rejection solution, driving $5M in savings per data center region.
• Developed and implemented cost feedback process for design development, reducing budget inaccuracies by 6%.

### Mechanical Engineer (Project Manager) @ Aptera Motors
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Managed deliverables, schedule, and budget for development of manufacturing system to map solar cell arrays to the geometry of the vehicle roof.

### Manufacturing Engineer @ Baebies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Identified inefficiencies in instrument assembly process and designed tool to cut production time by 5 min/unit for FINDER 1.5 newborn syndromic testing device.
• Led root-cause investigations on faulty instruments; documented findings for quality control.

### Mechanical Engineer @ Wunder
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boulder, Colorado, United States
• Designed and prototyped a filtration system for biofuel made from repurposed cocoa-butter waste.
• Ensured biofuel met ASTM standard of 2 micron fuel particle size by filtering urea clathrate.

### Net Zero Journey Intern @ Joules Accelerator
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• Connected 8 cleantech startups with local energy utilities and experts to foster collaboration and growth.
• Presented 20 potential startups to the board of directors, showcasing in-depth analysis of the cleantech landscape.
• Organized Tech Lemonade 2.0 event with 8 guest speakers, sparking discussions on innovation in corporate sustainability to 180 attendees.

### Uganda Bridge Project Fellow - Duke Engage @ Duke Engineers for International Development
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Kaihura, Uganda
• Partnered with nine students and a local nonprofit to construct a vehicular bridge in the rural village of Kanyegaramire.
• Conducted on-site design changes due to local government donating culverts twice the diameter of what was planned. 
• Improved cross-cultural communication skills by living among the community and speaking with residents to determine the community’s needs.

### Business Analyst @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Miami, Florida, United States

### Data Analyst and Tech Support @ XAPT Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Miami, Florida, United States


## Education
### Mechanical Engineering
Duke University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29