Android AOSP SW Engineer

V2 Infra Tech; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

V2 Infra Tech in Hillsboro, OR is seeking an experienced Android embedded software engineer to join our team developing platform software for automotive and embedded systems. You will work across the Android stack, from kernel drivers to system services, with C/C++ and Java/Kotlin, collaborating with distributed teams and external vendors.

The role emphasizes profiling, optimization, and telemetry design for reliable, high‑quality software.

Qualifications

• Extensive Android platform software development.
• Strong C/C++ and Java/Kotlin skills with Android build systems.
• Deep Android architecture knowledge: services, Binder/AIDL, HALs, init, SELinux, permissions.
• Experience integrating Android with BSPs, kernel drivers, SoCs, and hardware peripherals.
• Ability to profile and optimize embedded or resource-constrained systems.
• Experience designing telemetry/observability: logging, metrics, tracing, crash analysis.
• Excellent collaboration with distributed teams and vendors.
• Familiarity with Android Automotive OS or automotive components.
• Experience with Snapdragon platforms, vendor forks, GPU/media acceleration.
• Knowledge of hypervisors and multi-VM setups (Android guests with QNX/Linux).

Responsibilities

• Develop and debug Android platform software across AOSP layers.
• Profile, optimize, and troubleshoot embedded systems.
• Integrate Android with vendor BSPs, drivers and SoCs.
• Design and implement telemetry and health monitoring.
• Collaborate with product, system stakeholders, and external vendors.

Skills

Android platform

C/C++

Java/Kotlin

Android architecture

Build systems

Linux development

Git

Shell scripting

Python

Profiling

Telemetry

Embedded systems

Observability

Collaboration

Android Automotive

QNX Hypervisor

Secure media

Widevine DRM

Job description

• Extensive professional experience developing and debugging Android platform software, with strong hands‑on experience in AOSP framework and native layers.
• Strong C/C++ and Java or Kotlin skills; proficiency with Android build systems, Linux development environments, Git, shell scripting, and Python.
• Deep knowledge of Android architecture, including system services, Binder/AIDL, HALs, init, SELinux, permissions, process lifecycle, memory management, graphics/display, input, media, and power or thermal behavior.
• Experience integrating Android with vendor BSPs, kernel drivers, SoC platforms, hardware peripherals, or virtualized systems.
• Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize complex embedded or resource‑constrained systems using quantitative evidence.
• Experience designing telemetry or observability for embedded platforms, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, crash/ANR analysis, and health monitoring.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for working with distributed teams, product and system stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Experience with Android Automotive OS or adapting automotive-oriented Android components for non-automotive embedded use cases.
• Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, vendor Android forks, GPU/media acceleration, display pipelines, memory carve-outs, and chipset‑vendor debugging workflows.
• Experience with hypervisors and multi‑VM systems, including Android guests interacting with QNX or Linux management domains through VirtIO or custom IPC.
• Knowledge of IFE systems, seat‑end architectures, aircraft offerability, secure media playback, Widevine/DRM, audio/video pipelines, and passenger‑facing reliability expectations.
• Experience with SurfaceFlinger, WindowManager, DisplayManager, Hardware Composer, Gralloc, Codec2/MediaCodec, AudioFlinger/Audio HAL, input, lights, thermal, and power HALs.
• Familiarity with Android compatibility and security validation such as CTS/VTS, SELinux policy, verified boot, secure update, and vulnerability remediation.

Nice-to-haves:

• 10+ years of experience in embedded software development.
• Experience with infotainment systems based on Qualcomm SoCs.
• Familiarity with QNX Hypervisor.
• Understanding of TCP/IP and HTTP/HTTPS protocols.
• Familiarity with wireless technologies (Bluetooth, WiFi), satellite connectivity solutions