Android AI Engineer (Kotlin) — Build Proactive Assistant

TCWGlobal; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TCWGlobal is building a production Android app centered on AI interactions. You will own the Android client experience, ensuring performance, reliability, and clarity on mobile devices.

Join a team of backend and ML engineers to design AI-powered features, handle streaming responses, retries, and robust analytics to improve user experiences. You will optimize memory usage and responsiveness under latency and partial failure conditions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years Android development using Kotlin.
• Experience integrating AI features (LLM, vision, speech APIs).
• Strong asynchronous programming with Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with REST or gRPC APIs and structured data formats.
• Strong debugging and performance profiling skills.

Responsibilities

• Build production Android apps using Kotlin.
• Integrate AI-powered features via backend APIs.
• Design UX patterns for AI interactions, incl. streaming and retries.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and responsiveness.
• Implement analytics, logging, and user feedback capture.
• Collaborate with backend and ML engineers on contracts and behavior.
• Ensure app stability, security, and scalability in production.

Skills

Android development (Kotlin)

AI feature integration

Coroutines & Flow

REST & gRPC APIs

Debugging & profiling

Resilient under latency

MLKit/on-device inference

Google Play presence

Tools

Google Play Console

Job description

TCWGlobal is building a production Android app centered on AI interactions. You will own the Android client experience, ensuring performance, reliability, and clarity on mobile devices.

Join a team of backend and ML engineers to design AI-powered features, handle streaming responses, retries, and robust analytics to improve user experiences. You will optimize memory usage and responsiveness under latency and partial failure conditions.