Senior Android Platform & AOSP Stability Engineer

Katalyst CRO; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Katalyst CRO is seeking an experienced Android Full-Stack Engineer to join our platform stability team. You will diagnose, debug, and resolve complex Android stability issues spanning the entire Android stack, working deep within framework internals to ensure robustness across version upgrades.

This hands-on role requires solving the hardest, least-understanding problems in the Android ecosystem and providing technical direction for ambiguous challenges while maintaining platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Android platform/framework development experience.
• Design and develop middleware and Android background services exposing interfaces to apps.
• Proven track record resolving complex, low-level Android stability issues.
• Experience contributing to or modifying AOSP source code.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop middleware and Android background services for platform-level functionality.
• Debug and reverse-engineer complex issues from AOSP source code.
• Own overall Android platform stability and reliability across releases.
• Diagnose and fix bugs in system server components (Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, etc.).
• Address and resolve Android upgrade and integration issues across releases.
• Provide root-cause analysis for hard-to-reproduce issues and guide other engineers.

Skills

Kotlin

C++

Java

Job description

Katalyst CRO is seeking an experienced Android Full-Stack Engineer to join our platform stability team. You will diagnose, debug, and resolve complex Android stability issues spanning the entire Android stack, working deep within framework internals to ensure robustness across version upgrades.

This hands-on role requires solving the hardest, least-understanding problems in the Android ecosystem and providing technical direction for ambiguous challenges while maintaining platform reliability.