John Giannandrea, senior
vice president of engineering at Google and one of the company's leading public voices on artificial intelligence issues, is stepping down from his position as head of the search and AI units, according to a person with knowledge of the change.
Dave Burke, Google
vice president of engineering for Android, said during the keynote that in order for a device to be Daydream - certified, the smartphone in question needs to conform to «lots of rules» before being able to be deemed virtual reality ready.
According to the source, Ashraf took several other FF engineers with him when he left to take the position
as vice president of engineering at Romeo Power, which makes battery technology for electric cars.
As a contributor to the Bitcoin Core repository and
former vice president of engineering for the early bitcoin wallet software Armory, Jimmy Song is well known in the cryptocurrency space.
Anticipating the future, Richman — who is
also vice president of engineering and technology at Kaiser Aluminum — was a featured speaker at a Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) automotive materials seminar presented during the SEMA Show's educational track.
Elio Motors, Inc. (OTCQX: ELIO), announced on Thursday that it has appointed automotive industry veteran, Jeffrey W. Johnston, as its
new vice president of engineering In his new role, Johnston will be responsible for all engineering of the full Elio vehicle, validation, safety, program management... Read More
Former H -
P vice president of engineering Scott McClellan foolishly shared previously unreleased details of the company's cloud - computing strategy on his public LinkedIn profile, tipping off competitors to confidential information that should have remained under wraps.
It has been a week of executive turnover for Twitter, as news emerged that execs including product head Kevin Weil, media head Katie Jacobs Stanton, senior
vice president of engineering Alex Roetter, vice president of human resources Brian Schipper, and Vine head Jason Toff all stepped down.
On Monday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick asked his senior
vice president of engineering Amit Singhal to step down after it was learned he had not revealed he was the subject of a sexual harassment investigation at his previous employer Google.
Lyft — which Matthiesen said wants to make sure people know they're serious about this — is also building out a Palo Alto site where he and the company's
vice president of engineering Luc Vincent will lead a team of self - driving engineers.
The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as
vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining how much oil was actually flowing and figuring out how to stop it despite valiant efforts.
Weiss also hired a director of marketing, a vice president of physical product, a head of digital product and a director of finance, as well as, most recently, her
first vice president of engineering, Bryan Mahoney, who hails from Dynamo, the Montreal - based firm that built Glossier's website.
Plus, with the batteries having a life expectancy of over 20 years, depending on the number of cycle times, and a panel life of 50 or more years, the investment return is considerable,» said
NEC vice president of engineering, technical and environmental services Richard Atanus.
Update April 2nd 4:12 pm ET: In his frustration over Model 3 production, Musk has reportedly pushed out Tesla's
vice president of engineering Doug Field and taken over the division himself, The Information reports.
We attribute this perception to our choice to calibrate the Pixel 2 XL for delivering natural, accurate colors, taking advantage of the new color management support in Android 8.0 Oreo,» Google
vice president of engineering Seang Chau said.
A few months later, Raffi Krikorian — the former
vice president of engineering at Twitter who was hired by Uber in 2015 to lead its self - driving division — also left the company.
But these turbines don't need dams and don't present some of the challenges and expenses that come with them, explained Ed Lovelace,
executive vice president of engineering at Free Flow Power, based in Gloucester, Mass..
The $ 3.1 million Series A round, which closed in November 2014, included Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; Greg Badros,
former vice president of engineering and products at Facebook; and John Pleasants, former president of Disney Interactive.
«API.AI has a proven track record for helping developers design, build and continuously improve their conversational interfaces,» Google
vice president of engineering Scott Huffman wrote in a blog post.
Elio Motors, Inc. (OTCQX: ELIO), announced on Thursday that it has appointed automotive industry veteran, Jeffrey W. Johnston, as its new vice president of engineering
Aside from his bitcoin development work, Song has served as a principal architect at blockchain firm Paxos, as well
as vice president of engineering at open - source wallet management platform Armory Technologies.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Marc Hedlund, Etsy's
vice president of engineering, noticed that in his career he's hired men by the hundreds but only a handful of women.
Google Inc plans to roll out child - friendly versions of its most popular products in a bid to be «fun and safe for children», USA Today reported, quoting Pavni Diwanji, the company's
vice president of engineering.
«We don't want to only lean on our partners,» says Luc Vincent,
the vice president of engineering at Lyft.
Eric Winer, Gemini's
vice president of engineering, gave Fortune an early demo of the platform and explained, «We want to make it accessible to users who may not be well - versed in bitcoin; at the same time, we don't want to dumb it down for the power users.»
Buzz Dean, senior
vice president of engineering, says if the driver glances away to, say, read a text just as another vehicle pulls in front of him or her, the system will issue an alert — ranging from a message, audio signal or haptic feedback, such as shaking the brake pedal if you're too close to a car or vibrating your seat if the system feels you're getting drowsy.
Electric vehicle company Workhorse supplied UPS with the custom van, battery charging station, and drone for the delivery test, said John Dodero,
vice president of engineering for UPS.
But by 2019 or 2020, «we'll have removed drivers from the car,» Glen DeVos, Delphi's
vice president of engineering said in an interview.
Uber is currently operating without a CEO, COO, president, senior
vice president of engineering, and general counsel.
Bill Coughran, a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital and a former Google senior
vice president of engineering, said the sheer number of security startups receiving funding makes it difficult for any one of them to stand out.
«In a world where tens of thousands of pages are coming online every minute of every day, there are new ways that people try to game the system,» Ben Gomes,
vice president of engineering for Google Search, said in the blog post.
The company revealed that it has hired Joyus chief technology officer Sin Mei Tsai as
its vice president of engineering and former Monsoon Commerce executive Mikhail Ledvich as its head of marketing.
Krikorian, who was previously
the vice president of engineering at Twitter, joined Uber's Advanced Technology Group in March 2015 to lead the more than 50 roboticists and engineers that the ride - hail company recruited from Carnegie Mellon University.
A woman working at Uber said this to me last month on a phone call;
the vice president of engineering at Twitter was famously quoted as saying the same thing.