IW
Career profile
Ian Williamson
Staff Research Engineer - Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area
Career path.
Google DeepMindStaff Research Engineer
Aug 2025 - Present- X, the moonshot factory
Technical Lead, AI-guided photonic design
May 2022 - Aug 2025 - X, the moonshot factory
Software Engineer, AI-guided photonic design
Mar 2020 - May 2022 - Stanford Linear Accelerator
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dec 2017 - Feb 2020 - The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 - The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2011 - Aug 2017 - Graftek Imaging
Application Engineer
Feb 2011 - Jul 2011 - College Houses
Board Member
Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 - College Houses
Director, Pearl Street Coop
Jan 2010 - May 2010