Summary
Steven Li is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), where he leads the Gen AI Synthetic Data Platform for large-scale data generation, curation for LLM/LDM training, auto-labeling with multi-modal LLMs, and end-to-end adversarial testing used by 15+ teams. He also spearheads RedOps, a data-annotation platform that enables humans and models to collaboratively build high-quality Gen AI models and safety-focused products across the organization. Based in San Francisco, he holds a BS in Computer Science, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics from UIUC and brings eight years of experience delivering distributed systems and AI tooling at scale. Outside Meta, Steven is an active angel investor across a diverse portfolio of startups (Felicis Scout, Corridor, Modal, Listen Labs, YouLearn, Supermemory, Sherpa Labs, Odyssey, Mastra, Vendora, Tandem, Uprise). Earlier in his career he founded Medius Ventures and built products like Frec Treasury and Facebook Pay’s core data model, illustrating a hands-on, product-driven engineering mindset.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Statistics, and Applied Math, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Statistics, and Applied Math at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese