Remote Position
Android Integration Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Android Integration Engineer Experience: 4–10 years Platform: Android / AOSP Role Overview Responsible for moving the OEM's customized Android platform from Android 14 to Android 16, including framework integration, carrier customization and retail demonstration mode.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze Android 14–16 API and behavior changes and create feature-gap analysis.
- Merge Android 15 and 16 AOSP changes into the proprietary repository.
- Resolve conflicts in frameworks/base and core system services.
- Port custom features, notifications and security frameworks to Android 16.
- Implement carrier configuration including MCC/MNC whitelisting and IMSI support.
- Port and harden retail demonstration/kiosk profiles.
- Debug framework crashes, ANRs and memory leaks.
- Resolve framework and carrier-configuration issues during certification and rollout.
Mandatory Skills
- Experience shipping at least one major Android version upgrade on a production device, with clear ownership of the merge.
- Strong AOSP, Binder IPC, AIDL/HIDL, JNI, Zygote and Android system services knowledge.
- Strong Java and C++.
- Working knowledge of Kotlin.
- Android build systems: Soong, Blueprint, Make.
- Repo and Gerrit workflows.
- Carrier configuration experience: CarrierConfig, APN, SIM-lock or whitelisting logic.
Preferred Skills
- Kiosk, enterprise or retail-demo device experience.
- Device Owner / lock-task mode.
- CTS / VTS / GTS failure analysis.
- Qualcomm-based device experience with vendor-framework interfaces.
Senior requirement: At least one engineer should have led an Android framework merge.