Hadi Zadeh

Senior Staff Hardware Engineer
2018 – Present

Lead hardware technology efforts across the ChromeOS ecosystem, delivering world-class touch, stylus, trackpad, and keyboard experiences on 70M+ Chromebooks shipped annually.

• Hardware Design & Implementation (Concept to Production): Serve as end-to-end owner and quality gatekeeper for input hardware technologies, ensuring accuracy, speed, ergonomics, and aesthetics across millions of devices.
• Industry Standards & Leadership: Vice President and Board Member of the Universal Stylus Initiative (USI), driving industry-wide standards for active stylus interoperability across phones, tablets, laptops, and entertainment platforms.
• Ecosystem Collaboration: Act as the primary hardware liaison across the ChromeOS and Android ecosystems, aligning internal teams, external vendors, and platform roadmaps.
• Scale & Impact: Oversee design, validation, and integration of input hardware, ensuring consistent, high-quality user experiences globally.

Staff Hardware Engineer – Google Pixel Team
2016 – 2018

• Fully characterized and studied touch sensors for phones and laptops.
• Performed component selection, performance analysis, and characterization of accelerometers and gyroscopes across full scale ranges.
• Designed and deployed Multi Axis Rate Table (MART) for high-precision measurements and indoor locationing enablement of Pixel phones.

Senior Hardware Engineer
2015 – 2016

• Designed, implemented, and analyzed Tip-Tilt Test Station, measuring 24 accelerometer data streams simultaneously with 0.02% scale factor resolution, 0.01mg offset, 0.05% cross-axis sensitivity, and 0.1% nonlinearity over 0–70°C.
• Developed test automation using Dual-Axis Rate Table for accelerometer and gyroscope.
• Performed high-precision measurement and vibration rectification on motion center test systems.

Design and implementation of low noise ( • Automate and perform preventive maintenance for production level testers for wiggle, drift, and quality factor measurements
• Process optimization and control using SPC tools
• Designed and developed automated testing platform using MATLAB and SQL database server
• Conduct failure analysis and statistical analysis for MEMS microarrays
• Perform high precision optical alignment, IR and visible Laser design and assembly
• Designed and studied temperature and relative humidity controlled and noise
isolated enclosures for high precision optical power loss measurement