# Yizhe Liu

> Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Aurora

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Aurora
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
* Led effort to refactor and re-design code to support extensive unit-testing
* Ask me about the 3 inter-related ethernet DMA bugfixes that took 2 months to debug. Fun story.
* Designed safety-case and JAMA requirements to prove reliability of embedded device; later used as template for other devices to follow.
* Bringup human-interface board: Extremely redundantly engineered device to blink LED's and play sounds to inform driver of autonomy state. Designed communication protocol for safety-critical communication.
* Integrate 3rd party cryptography chip for secure boot: had to reverse-engineer and bugfix the entire stack due to "suboptimal" vendor support
* Create deployment tooling and infrastructure for secure boot device, along with a reliable over-the-air update scheme.
* Bringup new GNSS board: all peripherals, GNSS protocol support and conversion, bootloaders, integration with existing testing infrastructure.
* Implement various microcontroller drivers: USART, timer peripherals, i2c, ethernet, etc.
* Implement FlexCAN support on embedded device testing infrastructure

### Embedded Software Engineer @ Swift Navigation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Wrote Buildroot packages for GPS protocol converters and adapters
• Upgraded bootloader firmware versioning for consistent tracking within testing infrastructure
• New board bringup of next-generation product using Yocto buildchain
• Architected new internal runtime system for message passing, signal Input/Output, modular services, etc.
• Designed failure resistant testing, logging, and demo platform per specific customer requirements

### Software System Engineer, Intern @ Tarana Wireless, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
• Implemented Linux kernel bootloader upgrade failsafes to guarantee never bricking the device
• Upgraded bash scripts to streamline development and deployment
• Designed system for encrypting flash storage, but still allowing bootloader upgrades
• Configured GPS chip register settings to gracefully failover from intermittent GPS signal

### Software Firmware Engineer, Intern @ Cisco Meraki
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Implemented Bluetooth Beaconing functionality in an embedded environment
• Extended inhouse SQL-based database to accomodate new raw data, and extended Scala back-end to process
• Created new web portals in Ruby to configure Bluetooth settings

### Research Assistant @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Bryan/College Station, Texas Area
• Modified 3D printer controller firmware to incorporate sensor feedback for faster print times and higher accuracy
• Utilized motor encoders and computer vision to track print nozzle position and correct deviations in printing

### Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley, California
Working with software Design Tools For Folded Robots to rapidly prototype small scaled robots
Designed, built, and tested code to synthesize a mechanical structure to match any arbitrarily defined path
Worked with Duncan Haldane, Mech. E. PhD at UC Berkeley
Code is on github at https://github.com/yizow/robot-synthesis

### Summer Intern @ Samsung
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | san José, California
Mobile Android app development focused on context-based awareness
Trained a computer model to learn user’s significant location
Developed algorithm using model to predict user’s future locations.
Wrote and submitted Paper to Samsung Internal Conference

### Research Assitant @ SafeTREC, UC Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Wrote Microsoft Excel Macros to handle Data Collection;
Wrote SQL Queries to mine Database
Data Collection

### Head Tutor @ Aborn Summer Camp
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Taught various topics including math, English, chess, and basketball to elementary and middle school kids.
Supervised up to 4 other tutors
Organized daily scheduling and activities


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29