Android Platform Engineer (Remote) — HALs & SELinux

logcat.ai; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Top-of-market salary

AI tools and internal tooling

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Small team

Job summary

logcat.ai is seeking a seasoned Android platform investigator to join a small, mostly remote team. You’ll dive into platform services, HALs, policy, and the build to diagnose failures on production devices and propose fixes with real impact.

If you’ve shipped system services, owned SELinux policies, or steered a device through major Android upgrades, you’ll thrive in this role. Remote with potential on-site in Seattle or Bengaluru; eligible to work where you are located.

Qualifications

• Shipped a system service, daemon, or privileged component on production builds.
• Owned SELinux policy, init configuration or platform signing.
• Carried a device or vendor tree through a major Android version upgrade.

Responsibilities

• Join Android platform investigations and remediations with the founder.
• Explain failure causes to customers during calls as the Android platform expert.
• Check platform analyses against device reality and correct where needed.
• Encode platform reasoning to ensure correct outcomes in absence of handholding.

Skills

System service

SELinux policy

Android upgrades

Root-cause fixes

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

logcat.ai is seeking a seasoned Android platform investigator to join a small, mostly remote team. You’ll dive into platform services, HALs, policy, and the build to diagnose failures on production devices and propose fixes with real impact.

If you’ve shipped system services, owned SELinux policies, or steered a device through major Android upgrades, you’ll thrive in this role. Remote with potential on-site in Seattle or Bengaluru; eligible to work where you are located.