Android Framework Engineer

Flock

5d•$130,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Flock Safety is looking for an Android Framework Engineer to join our Device OS Team. This is an Embedded Systems role, not a Mobile App role. The team builds on headless, custom AOSP builds, meaning there are no UI components, no Fragments, and no Play Store. The engineer will be responsible for the "guts" of the device, developing the system services, IPC interfaces (AIDL), and hardware abstractions that allow AI-driven cameras to capture and process data autonomously in the field for years. This role is for individuals who enjoy working at the intersection of the Android OS and custom hardware.

Requirements

Knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps
Strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience
Exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks
Familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management
Unit testing, CTS/VTS
Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing
Exposure to or interest in AOSP development
Shell scripting experience & init.rc
Exposure to security and SE Policy
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.
Experience with architecture, design, and documentation
Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub

Nice To Haves

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
Ability to write automation shell scripts to improve self productivity and share such helper scripts with the team to boost overall productivity

Responsibilities

Designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
Developing testable service implementations in Rust/C++
Contributing to system apps development
Contributing to system services development
Expanding the use and accessibility to engineers
Being a key contributor to system apps and system services
Being a key contributor in developing new products and the next generation
Playing a central role in streamlining the code to ensure it supports multiple platforms

Benefits

Flexible PTO
11 company holidays
Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision
HSA match
12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
Additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time for birthing parents
Fertility & Family Benefits: partnered with Maven
Reimbursement of $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility
Annual subscription to Headspace for mental health
Caregiver Support: partnered with Cariloop
ERGs (Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion)
1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors through Carta Tax Advisor
$150 per month WFH Stipend
$250 per year Productivity Stipend
One-time $750 Home Office Stipend
Pet Insurance through Pumpkin