[Remote] Android Framework Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flock is dedicated to building technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. They are seeking an Android Framework Engineer to develop system services and hardware abstractions for AI-driven cameras, focusing on the intersection of Android OS and custom hardware.
Responsibilities
- Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
- Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++
- Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps
- Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks
- Familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc
- Unit testing, CTS/VTS
- Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing
- Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development: Including shell scripting experience & init.rc
- Exposure to security and SE Policy
- Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW
- Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack
- OTA update experience
- Reliability / self-healing
- Network / connectivity
- Tombstone / bugreport analysis
- System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc
- Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation
- Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub
- C/C++ skills and expertise with lower levels of the stack such as kernel, services, bootloaders etc
- Linux kernel driver development experience
- Experience working on Linux platforms, including Embedded Linux
- Familiarity with tools like perfetto used for debugging and performance
- Familiarity with Qualcomm based Android devices
- Experience with Qualcomm Camera Stack
- Have the ability to write automation shell scripts to improve self productivity and share such helper scripts with the team to boost overall productivity
Skills
- Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
- Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++
- Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps
- Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks
- Familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc
- Unit testing, CTS/VTS
- Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing
- Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development including shell scripting experience & init.rc
- Exposure to security and SE Policy
- Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW
- Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack
- OTA update experience
- Reliability / self-healing
- Network / connectivity
- Tombstone / bugreport analysis
- System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc
- Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation
- Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub
- C/C++ skills and expertise with lower levels of the stack such as kernel, services, bootloaders etc
- Linux kernel driver development experience
- Experience working on Linux platforms, including Embedded Linux
- Familiarity with tools like perfetto used for debugging and performance
- Familiarity with Qualcomm based Android devices
- Experience with Qualcomm Camera Stack
- Have the ability to write automation shell scripts to improve self productivity and share such helper scripts with the team to boost overall productivity
Benefits
- Flock Stock Options
- Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
- Fully-paid [health benefits](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W8o-fLMVCOWL9pYFAVSMsSTaJAA9Vm_J/view) plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
- Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
- Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with [Maven](https://www.mavenclinic.com/), a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility.
- Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to [Headspace](https://www.headspace.com/).
- Caregiver Support: We have partnered with [Cariloop](https://www.cariloop.com/) to provide our employees with caregiver support
- ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
- Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
- WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
- Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
- Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
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