Lead Android Platform Engineer

Logitech•San Jose, CA

2d•$168,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Logitech is seeking a highly experienced Android Systems Engineer with deep expertise in building Android-based appliance products. This role focuses on the development, integration, optimization, and delivery of purpose-built Android devices where reliability, performance, security, and hardware/software integration are critical. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience across the Android software stack, including Linux kernel development, device drivers, Android HAL, Android framework services, and system-level debugging. A deep domain knowledge in at least one major Android subsystem such as the Camera Framework, Display Framework, or Audio Framework is required, with the ability to work across multiple subsystems as needed. This role is well-suited for an engineer who can operate from low-level hardware bring-up through Android framework integration and production software delivery, moving comfortably between architecture and hands-on debugging. The candidate should be able to understand a product requirement, trace it through the Android framework, HAL, kernel, driver, and hardware layers, and identify the right solution. This person should bring strong engineering judgment, deep Android system knowledge, and the ability to deliver reliable appliance software in a complex hardware/software environment, and be comfortable working directly with internal teams, external technology partners, and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
8+ years of experience in embedded Linux, Android platform development, or Android device software engineering.
Strong hands-on experience building and shipping Android-based hardware products.
Deep understanding of Android architecture, including framework, native services, HAL, vendor partition, system services, and boot process.
Strong Linux kernel development experience, including device drivers, device tree, kernel configuration, debugging, and performance analysis.
Experience with Android BSP integration and platform bring-up on SoC-based products.
Deep experience in at least one of the following Android subsystems: Camera Framework / Camera HAL, Display Framework / Hardware Composer / SurfaceFlinger, Audio Framework / Audio HAL / AudioFlinger / Audio Policy
Strong debugging skills across kernel, native Android, framework, and application layers.
Experience with Android build systems, AOSP, Soong/Make, Git, Gerrit, and CI workflows.
Experience with SELinux policy development and Android security model.
Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams and external partners.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing Android appliance, video conferencing, smart display, collaboration, consumer electronics, or enterprise device products.
Experience with multi-camera systems, video pipelines, ISP tuning, image processing, or computer vision workloads.
Experience with audio DSPs, microphone arrays, beamforming, echo cancellation, or low-latency audio systems.
Experience with HDMI, USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, touch controllers, and display interfaces.
Experience with Android Enterprise, device management, kiosk mode, secure boot, OTA updates, and factory provisioning.
Experience working with SoC vendors such as Qualcomm, MediaTek, NXP, Ambarella, Rockchip, or similar platforms.
Experience with Android certification, CTS/VTS, GMS, enterprise device certification, or partner certification programs.
Experience with performance tools such as systrace, Perfetto, ftrace, simpleperf, logcat, dumpsys, bugreport, and kernel tracing.
Experience leading technical discussions with offshore teams, ODMs, JDMs, and BSP vendors.

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, and deliver Android-based appliance platforms for advanced video collaboration and embedded systems products.
Work closely with hardware, firmware, platform software, application, QA, manufacturing, and partner engineering teams to ensure the complete system works reliably from bootloader and kernel through Android services and user-facing functionality.
Solve complex system integration issues, guide technical decisions, review platform architecture, and contribute directly to high-quality production software.
Develop and integrate Android-based software platforms for purpose-built appliance devices.
Customize and optimize Android system behavior for dedicated appliance use cases, including kiosk-style operation, controlled user experience, device management, security, and reliability.
Work across Android framework, native services, HAL layers, kernel, and device-specific software components.
Support Android platform bring-up on new SoC platforms and hardware designs.
Integrate BSP releases from SoC vendors, ODMs, JDMs, and technology partners.
Drive platform stability, boot performance, recovery behavior, update mechanisms, and production readiness.
Develop, debug, and maintain Linux kernel components for Android-based products.
Work on device drivers for camera, audio, display, touch, USB, I2C, SPI, GPIO, Ethernet, power management, and other hardware interfaces.
Debug low-level system issues involving interrupts, memory, DMA, device tree, clocks, power rails, and peripheral initialization.
Analyze kernel logs, tombstones, traces, crash dumps, and other diagnostic data to isolate complex system failures.
Collaborate with hardware engineers to validate board-level behavior and resolve hardware/software integration issues.
Optimize kernel and driver performance for system latency, throughput, power, and reliability.
Provide deep technical leadership in one or more Android multimedia subsystems, including Android Camera Framework, Android Display Framework, or Android Audio Framework.
Work with application and product teams to ensure camera, display, and audio features meet real-world product requirements.
Debug cross-subsystem issues involving camera preview, video encode/decode, display output, audio capture/playback, synchronization, and system performance.
Design, develop, and debug Android HAL implementations and vendor services.
Work with AIDL/HIDL interfaces, native daemons, Binder IPC, SELinux policies, and Android system services.
Integrate vendor-specific functionality into the Android framework while maintaining platform stability and upgradeability.
Resolve compatibility, permission, security, and lifecycle issues across Android services and vendor components.
Support Android compatibility, certification, and production software requirements.
Contribute to architecture decisions for new Android appliance platforms.
Evaluate SoC capabilities, BSP quality, multimedia pipelines, hardware interfaces, and system performance tradeoffs.
Review partner designs and technical proposals from SoC vendors, ODMs, JDMs, and technology partners.
Provide technical guidance to internal engineering teams and external partners.
Create design documents, architecture diagrams, debugging guides, and technical recommendations.
Mentor engineers in Android platform development, kernel debugging, HAL design, and system integration.