Kevin Qi

Consultant

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

About

Focused on building systems that work at scale—reliable, efficient, and built to last. Engineering keeps evolving, but solid fundamentals never go out of style.

Experience

  • NVIDIA (8 yrs)
    • Consultant
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

      Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams on system architecture, design reviews, and complex build decisions. Support teams in analyzing trade-offs, resolving cross-domain technical issues, and aligning architecture choices with product, schedule, and operational constraints. Engage as needed across design, validation, and integration phases to help unblock decisions and keep execution moving.

    • Director, Engineering
      2022 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Manager, System Design
      Jul 2018 - 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • BlackBerry (12 yrs 3 mos)
    • System Design Engineer
      2014 - Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Worked on the SHIELD product across the full hardware lifecycle, including system architecture, component selection, EE design, bring-up, validation, tuning, and production support. Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready consumer devices.

    • Silicon Validation Engineer
      2011 - 2014 · 3 yrs

      Supported silicon validation for multiple Tegra platforms, focusing on I/O and memory subsystems. Worked on bring-up, debugging, and validation to ensure functionality and performance across product generations.

    • Hardware Designer, Co-op
      2006 - 2011 · 5 yrs

      Prototype Bring-Up: designed prototype analog discrete circuits to add new power-related functions for future devices. The whole process included schematic design, board layout, circuit debug, functional verification, and final documentation. Technology Evaluation: researched and evaluated cutting-edge technologies’ readiness to be integrated as new features. This included: mathematically verifying the technologies’ maximum performances; scripting tests to understand the limits of the next generation processors; automating instruments to perform repetitive measurements to speed up the process of data analysis; and more.

  • GE (On-site)
    • Field Service Support
      2004 - 2006 · 2 yrs

    • Assistant Engineer
      2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs