Nathan Ng

About

Nathan Ng is a mechanical engineer living in the beautiful city of San Francisco. His areas of expertise are in high-volume products in the consumer electronics industry and designing sensors for self-driving cars. He is a prolific product design engineer who leverages productivity frameworks and writes his own scripts to solve problems quickly.

Experience

• Head of Mechanical and Thermal Engineering at Etched
  Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

• Manager, Senior Staff Mechanical Engineer at Tesla
  Jan 2021 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs

  Managed the mechanical team that designs and develops the car computers for all car models and Tesla's AI datacenter hardware

• Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering at JUUL Labs
  Nov 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  Managed the mechanical team that designed the next generation of vape devices

• Staff Mechanical Engineer at Tesla
  May 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  Lead camera engineer for all 24x autopilot camera module sensors for Tesla’s AI hardware

• Senior Product Design Engineer at Apple
  Sep 2010 - May 2016 · 5 yrs 9 mos

  Officially invented the USB Type-C Cable & Connector mechanical specification Lead designer for Mac embedded haptic trackpads (2016), USB Type-C cable (2015), super-slim Lightning connector (2014), European unibody AC power adapter (2013), MagSafe 2 (2012), Thunderbolt cable (2011), 30pin to HDMI iOS dongle (2011)