Faisal is a Senior Product Design Engineer with 10 years of experience turning ambitious ideas into manufacturable, real-world hardware products. His work has spanned consumer electronics, wearables, enterprise hardware, and medical devices, from early product definition and architecture through validation and mass production.
At Meta, Faisal pioneered the integrated EMG electrode architecture for the first-generation Meta Neural Band, enabling ML-driven gesture recognition through neuromuscular signals and establishing the technical foundation for future EMG wearable systems. His work now extends to next-generation wearables and AI devices, spanning hardware architecture, requirements, reliability, and cross-functional development.
Previously at Verkada, Faisal led the development and launch of camera and environmental sensing products, working across engineering, design, operations, and global suppliers. Earlier at Maestro Product Design, a boutique consultancy founded by former Apple design and engineering leaders, he worked across consumer, enterprise, and medical-device programs, solving complex product challenges alongside clients, engineering teams, and manufacturing partners.
His career has been shaped by Silicon Valley product development and extensive hands-on work with manufacturing partners in China and Taiwan. With deep ties to Saudi Arabia, Faisal is particularly interested in the region’s rapidly growing technology ecosystem and in how advances in hardware, AI, and emerging technologies can be translated into real-world products at scale.
Faisal earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a KAUST Gifted Student Program (KGSP) scholar.