Android AI Engineer - Production-Ready AI Apps (Kotlin)

Skillsearch; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillsearch is recruiting an Android Engineer to own the Android client experience in a remote-first UK team. You will build a production Android application where AI interactions are core to the product, focusing on performance and reliability.

You will integrate AI-powered features via backend APIs, design UX for streaming AI responses, and collaborate with backend/ML engineers to ensure scalable, secure app behavior. Experience with Kotlin and Play Store publishing is preferred.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating AI features (LLM, vision, speech) in production apps.
• Proficient with asynchronous programming (Coroutines, Flow).
• Familiar with REST or gRPC APIs and data formats.
• Strong debugging and performance profiling skills.
• Experience with MLKit or light on-device inference.
• Published production apps on Google Play Store.

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 and retries.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and responsiveness for AI-heavy flows.
• Implement analytics, logging, and feedback capture for AI evaluation.
• Collaborate with backend and ML engineers on API contracts and system behavior.
• Ensure app stability, security, and scalability in production.

Skills

AI integration

Coroutines

REST APIs

Debugging

On-device ML

Play Console

Tools

MLKit

TensorFlow Lite

Android Studio

Job description

Skillsearch is recruiting an Android Engineer to own the Android client experience in a remote-first UK team. You will build a production Android application where AI interactions are core to the product, focusing on performance and reliability.

You will integrate AI-powered features via backend APIs, design UX for streaming AI responses, and collaborate with backend/ML engineers to ensure scalable, secure app behavior. Experience with Kotlin and Play Store publishing is preferred.