Android AI Engineer – Build AI-Driven Mobile Apps

Skillsearch; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillsearch is seeking an Android Engineer to own the Android client experience, delivering a production-grade mobile app where AI interactions are core. You will build, optimize, and iterate features with Kotlin, ensuring reliable performance and scalability in a remote-first UK environment.

Responsibilities include integrating AI features via APIs, designing UX for streaming AI responses, and collaborating with backend/ML teams to align contracts and system behavior.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating AI features in mobile apps (LLM, vision, speech).
• Strong Kotlin/Android and asynchronous programming (Coroutines, Flow).
• Experience publishing apps on Google Play.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production Android apps using Kotlin.
• Integrate AI-powered features via backend APIs.
• Design UX patterns for AI interactions, including streaming responses.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and responsiveness for AI-heavy flows.
• Implement analytics, logging, and feedback capture to support AI evaluation and iteration.
• Collaborate with backend and ML engineers on API contracts and system behavior.
• Ensure app stability, security, and scalability in production environments.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Async programming (Coroutines/Flow)

AI integration (LLM/vision/speech)

REST/ gRPC APIs

Debugging/Perf profiling

On-device inference (MLKit)

Google Play publishing

Tools

MLKit

TensorFlow Lite

Google Play Console

Job description

Skillsearch is seeking an Android Engineer to own the Android client experience, delivering a production-grade mobile app where AI interactions are core. You will build, optimize, and iterate features with Kotlin, ensuring reliable performance and scalability in a remote-first UK environment.

Responsibilities include integrating AI features via APIs, designing UX for streaming AI responses, and collaborating with backend/ML teams to align contracts and system behavior.