Android Integration Engineer

Snowrelic Inc; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowrelic Inc. is seeking an experienced Android platform engineer to move an OEM’s customized Android from Android 14 to 16, with framework integration, carrier customization, and retail demo mode.

The role requires leading merge efforts, strong knowledge of AOSP, Binder IPC, JNI, and build systems, and hands-on work across vendor interfaces and certification phases.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping at least one major Android version upgrade on a production device.
• Strong AOSP, Binder IPC, AIDL/HIDL, JNI, Zygote and Android system services knowledge.
• Strong Java and C++.
• Working knowledge of Kotlin.
• Android build systems: Soong, Blueprint, Make.
• Repo and Gerrit workflows.
• Carrier configuration experience: CarrierConfig, APN, SIM-lock or whitelisting logic.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Android 14/16 API and behavior changes and create feature-gap analysis.
• Merge Android 15 and 16 AOSP changes into the proprietary repository.
• Resolve conflicts in frameworks/base and core system services.
• Port custom features, notifications and security frameworks to Android 16.
• Implement carrier configuration including MCC/MNC whitelisting and IMSI support.
• Port and harden retail demonstration/kiosk profiles.
• Debug framework crashes, ANRs and memory leaks.
• Resolve framework and carrier-configuration issues during certification and rollout.

Skills

Android framework

AOSP

Binder IPC

AIDL/HIDL

JNI

Zygote

Android system services

Java

C++

Kotlin

Build systems

Repo workflows

Gerrit workflows

Tools

Repo

Gerrit

Soong

Blueprint

Make

Job description

Role Overview

Responsible for moving the OEM's customized Android platform from

Experience: 4 10 years
Platform: Android / AOSP

Role Overview

Responsible for moving the OEM's customized Android platform from Android 14 to Android 16, including framework integration, carrier customization and retail demonstration mode.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze Android 14 16 API and behavior changes and create feature-gap analysis.
• Merge Android 15 and 16 AOSP changes into the proprietary repository.
• Resolve conflicts in frameworks/base and core system services.
• Port custom features, notifications and security frameworks to Android 16.
• Implement carrier configuration including MCC/MNC whitelisting and IMSI support.
• Port and harden retail demonstration/kiosk profiles.
• Debug framework crashes, ANRs and memory leaks.
• Resolve framework and carrier-configuration issues during certification and rollout.

Mandatory Skills

• Experience shipping at least one major Android version upgrade on a production device, with clear ownership of the merge.
• Strong AOSP, Binder IPC, AIDL/HIDL, JNI, Zygote and Android system services knowledge.
• Strong Java and C++.
• Working knowledge of Kotlin.
• Android build systems: Soong, Blueprint, Make.
• Repo and Gerrit workflows.
• Carrier configuration experience: CarrierConfig, APN, SIM-lock or whitelisting logic.

Preferred Skills

• Kiosk, enterprise or retail-demo device experience.
• Device Owner / lock-task mode.
• CTS / VTS / GTS failure analysis.
• Qualcomm-based device experience with vendor-framework interfaces.

Senior requirement

At least one engineer should have led an Android framework merge.