Software Engineer (4) / Premium Engineer 3

• Design and develop Android middleware and platform-level background services.
• Debug complex Android issues directly from AOSP source code.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across the Android Framework and Vendor layers.
• Debug and modify system_server components.
• Troubleshoot Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, and SurfaceFlinger issues.
• Investigate ANRs, boot failures, black screens, and stability issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis for unknown or difficult-to-reproduce problems.
• Resolve Android upgrade and platform integration issues.
• Address compliance failures across CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS.
• Provide technical direction to engineers on complex platform problems.
• Collaborate with hardware/SoC vendors on platform bring-up and integration.

We are seeking an experienced Android Full-Stack / Platform Engineer to join the Platform Stability team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience across the Android stack, including AOSP, Android Framework, system_server, native C++, Kotlin, Java, middleware, and vendor layers. This role focuses on diagnosing and resolving complex Android platform stability issues, reverse-engineering problems from AOSP source code, and providing technical direction for difficult or ambiguous issues. Must-Have Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on Android Platform/Framework development
• Strong Kotlin, C++, and Java experience
• Hands-on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) development and source-code debugging
• Strong experience with Android Framework / system_server

• Experience with:

• Activity Manager
• Window Manager
• Package Manager
• SurfaceFlinger
• Experience developing Android middleware and background/foreground services
• Strong knowledge of AIDL / Binder IPC

• Experience troubleshooting:

• ANR / Application Not Responding
• Boot failures
• Black-screen issues
• Android platform stability problems
• Experience working across framework, native, and vendor layers
• Experience with HAL / Hardware Abstraction Layer
• Ability to modify and debug native Android components using C++
• Experience resolving Android upgrade/integration issues

Preferred Skills

• Android Automotive OS (AAOS)
• Car Service / CarService
• CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS
• Android graphics/display stack
• GDB / LLDB
• Perfetto / Systrace
• Logcat analysis
• Android Soong / Make build systems
• Android partition architecture
• Experience working with SoC/silicon vendors
• Automotive or embedded Android experience, Required: Bachelor’s Degree Preferred: Master’s Degree Ideal Candidate Profile The strongest candidates will be deep Android platform engineers, not application-level Android developers. Look for candidates with hands-on AOSP + system_server + C++ native components + Kotlin/Java framework development, particularly those who have debugged Android platform stability issues and worked below the Treble boundary. AAOS/automotive experience is a strong plus but is not mandatory.