# Xiaohui Tao > Principle Engineer @ Apple AIML (We are hiring!) Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/xiaohui I am passionate about designing, implementing, generalizing computational photography and computer vision / deep learning technologies on consumer mobile and edge (smaller form factor) devices. I believe that we are at this exact minute that cloud and on-device image/video processing and understanding is going to completely change our old ways of capturing and acting on the perfect moments in our life. I have 5+ years experience as a manager and leader in this field, and 10+ years experience as a full-stack software engineer, building software from Linux Kernel all the way to Application Layer. I am very experienced in developing solutions within a tight performance budget, which leverages cutting-edge technologies like Machine Learning and Hardware Acceleration, and optimizing the overall system design to achieve product goals. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer / TL Director @ Apple Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, WA Leads post-training efforts for Multi-modal Foundational Model, AI Agents and Assistant * World Knowledge VQA * Streaming LLM / VLM * Search Tool-use 2023 - 2025 launched features: Visual Intelligence Look-up, Summarization and Priority LLM for Intelligent Writing Tools, Priority Messages / Notifications / Emails, and Image Wand ### Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States I lead the camera and perception org for future product lines at Meta AR/VR, including Camera Experience, Algorithms, Framework and System teams. My org is also responsible for camera-based Augmented Reality use cases for Meta AR/VR. ### Engineering Manager, Camera & Perception @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | United States Engineering Manager (TLM) at Google Focus on: Camera Android/Mobile Infra Machine Learning Computer Vision On-device Algorithm Optimization Google Lens ### Software Engineer, AR/VR @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California, United States Google Lens ### Sr. System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santa Clara Cuda/GPU; Sensors including Accleromater, Gyro; Drivers; Automation Testing; C/C++; Kernel; Android & iOS Development Experience; PHP & HTML; Framework; System level integration; Touch & sensor performance evaluation; Direct-touch mechanism ### System Software Engineer @ NVIDIA Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | 2701 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara, CA . 95050 Touchscreen; Sensors including Accleromater, Gyro; Drivers; Automation Testing; C/C++; Kernel; Android & iOS Development Experience; PHP & HTML; Framework; System level integration; Touch & sensor performance evaluation; Direct-touch mechanism ### Software Engineer Intern @ Laserfiche Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Long Beach, CA Ipad client design for Laserfiche; Communication with Laserfiche Database through Laserfiche Web Access to let the user have access to the Laserfiche Documents from Ipad side; Server side implementation to support Laserfiche Mobile; ### Technical Support and Maintenance (Intern) @ China Telecom Global Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Shanghai, China Help setting up workstations at one of the server center of China Telecom, Shanghai; Bandwidth and Internet speed testing at customers’ apartments; Help setting up Internet access; Efficient IP Routing; ### Chief Research Member @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Shanghai, China Engaged in research activities of Antenna Design with CST and Adaptive CL-PSO algorithm: One invention of RFID Tag Antenna used on metal finished; One paper on that and one patent published; ## Education ### Master of Science in Electrical Engineering UCLA ### Bachelor in Information Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University ### Shanghai Jianping High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/xiaohuitao --- Source: https://flows.cv/xiaohui JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/xiaohui/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12