Android Developer

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain custom Android AOSP distributions.
• Integrate and maintain BSPs for Qualcomm, MediaTek, NXP, and other embedded SoCs.
• Perform Android bring-up on new hardware platforms.
• Customize HALs, system services, SELinux policies, init services, and vendor components.
• Debug boot issues across Boot ROM, bootloader, kernel, init, and Android framework.
• Optimize Android boot time, memory usage, and overall system performance.
• Integrate hardware peripherals including displays, cameras, touch, audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GNSS, USB, CAN, and sensors.
• Modify and maintain Linux kernels, device trees, and vendor drivers.
• Work with U-Boot/Fastboot and recovery environments.
• Investigate kernel panics, tombstones, ANRs, and native crashes.
• Automate builds using Jenkins, shell scripting, Python, and Git workflows.
• Support OTA updates and release engineering.
• Collaborate with hardware vendors to resolve platform issues.
• Review code and mentor junior engineers where required.

Required Skills

Android

• Strong understanding of Android architecture
• AOSP build system (Make/Soong)
• Android Framework
• HAL/HIDL/AIDL
• Binder IPC
• SELinux
• init.rc
• Vendor partitions
• OTA mechanisms

Linux

• Linux kernel configuration
• Device Tree (DTS)
• Driver debugging
• Kernel logging
• Userspace debugging
• BusyBox
• Shell scripting

Embedded Systems

• BSP development
• Bootloader concepts
• U-Boot
• Fastboot
• Flash layouts
• eMMC/UFS
• UART debugging
• Hardware bring-up

Programming

• C
• C++
• Java/Kotlin (Android)
• Python
• Bash

Tools

• Git
• Gerrit
• Repo
• Jenkins
• adb
• fastboot
• GDB
• addr2line
• objdump
• perf
• strace