Barnaby James Experienced hands-on engineering leader with an extensive track record of applying AI to novel zero to build real world products. I have a long track record of innovation with 113 issued patents in applied machine learning and robotics. I previously worked on Google Search, was a founding engineer for Google Assistant, founded TidalX - an underwater robotics company that spun out of Google <X>, developed robots for Amazon and currently work on incubating novel Generative AI products at Google Labs (Notebook LM, AI Studio, Gemini For Science, Pomello, CC etc) . I am also an angel investor in over 20 companies.
Barnaby James Experienced hands-on engineering leader with an extensive track record of applying AI to novel zero to build real world products. I have a long track record of innovation with 113 issued patents in applied machine learning and robotics. I previously worked on Google Search, was a founding engineer for Google Assistant, founded TidalX - an underwater robotics company that spun out of Google <X>, developed robots for Amazon and currently work on incubating novel Generative AI products at Google Labs (Notebook LM, AI Studio, Gemini For Science, Pomello, CC etc) . I am also an angel investor in over 20 companies.
Career
Barnaby James holds a BSc physics from University of Toronto.
Senior Director of Engineering at Google from 2022-07 to Present in Mountain view, CAIncubating new products @ Google Labs including Notebook LM, AI Studio, Gemini API, Pomelli, Gemini For Science, CC, Opal, Stax and Mixboard.
Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Science from 2021-05 to 2022-07Amazon Robotics building Last Mile Delivery Robots
Principal Engineer at X, the moonshot factory from 2017-03 to 2021-05Founder and CTO for Tidal - spun out as TidalX.ai
Early stage project incubation
Senior staff SWE at Google from 2007-09 to 2017-03 in Mountain View, CAFounding engineer on Google Assistant / Voice search including Actions on Google, Home Automation and Android Auto Integration.
Work on Travel Search and Google Apps (aka Workspace)
