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.