AI Phone - Android Device Integration Engineer

About

We are reimagining the phone. AI phones need to be proactive, intuitive, intelligent and low cost. This is a mission critical for rest of the world to adopt intelligence.

There are over 5 billion people using everyday applications such as email, messaging, notes, tasks, and calendars, yet most are not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications and devices that bring intelligence into daily conversations, coordination and workflows, with minimal prompting.

Focus: Making the Android OS / custom ROM work correctly with the actual physical phone hardware.

This is different from conventional Android application development.

Responsibilities

Integrate AOSP / custom ROM with the selected device hardware.

Work with Board Support Packages (BSPs).

Integrate vendor-specific Hardware Abstraction Layers (HALs).

Work with firmware and device drivers.

Support device bring-up and boot processes.

Integrate camera, microphone, speakers, sensors, modem, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Troubleshoot hardware and firmware compatibility issues.

Work with ODM/OEM and chipset vendors.

Optimize power consumption and hardware performance.

Requirements

Experience with Android platform, BSP or embedded Linux development.

Understanding of Android HAL and hardware integration.

C / C++ knowledge.

Understanding of Linux kernel and device drivers. (IMPORTANT)

Experience debugging firmware and hardware integration issues.

Nice to have

Qualcomm or MediaTek experience.

Android device bring-up.

Custom ROM development.

Experience working with smartphone manufacturers or ODMs.