Daewoon Kim

Daewoon Kim is a highly skilled Staff Systems Engineer specializing in Fault Protection at Waymo since September 2025. Prior to this role, Daewoon served as a System Test Engineer focused on Fault Management at Zipline from September 2022 to September 2025, where responsibilities included building and verifying fault management requirements through simulations and flight testing. Daewoon's academic journey includes a Doctor of Philosophy from Georgia Institute of Technology, with a graduate research assistantship from August 2020 to July 2024. Previous industry experience encompasses positions as an Autonomy Systems Engineer at Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a Design Release Engineer at General Motors, and various roles in design and analysis at Skybox Imaging, Space Systems Loral, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Daewoon holds a Master of Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Michigan College of Engineering.