Senior Embedded Android Engineer

Our Client is seeking a Senior Embedded Android Engineer to be based in our San Francisco office
. In this role you will be an integral part of a stellar engineering team responsible for building new products. You will work within a highly cross‑functional feature team and collaborate closely with mobile, backend and hardware engineers.

You will be focussed on firmware development for IoT devices, including board bring-up, writing low‑level device drivers and delivering high quality, robust product firmware. This position is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team as we add value to our expanding product family.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in design, development, verification, troubleshooting, and delivery of high quality firmware.
• Deliver resilient and robust designs - Lead and participate in technical discussions across engineering and product teams.
• Work with the electrical team for hardware bring up and verification of new designs.
• Work closely with the software and mobile teams for definition and implementation of wireframes used by devices for wireless communications.
• Write low level peripheral drivers needed for board and application bring up.
• Perform power consumption analysis and optimize firmware for low power battery operation.

Qualifications:

• BS or above in EE/CS.
• 5+ years of experience in software development on Embedded Android AOSP /Embedded Linux based systems.
• Experience in Linux kernel, device tree, Android/Linux device driver and HAL layers as well as Android Framework layers.
• Knowledgeable in C/C++, Linux, RTOS’s and Object Oriented Design/Architecture.
• Knowledge of mobile device emerging technologies including Smartphone LTE architectures, wireless IoT- BLE / Internet connected devices, camera/video, and touch screen displays.
• Experience working with device drivers for serial communication protocols such as SPI/I2C/RS-232/USB etc.
• Ability to work well independently and in close collaboration with a remote team.
• Ability to travel and work in 1-2 week increments periodically in the NYC office as needed.

Preferred:

• Knowledge and experience working with Security, Cryptography a huge plus.
• Deep knowledge of electrical concepts and comfortable reading hardware schematics and debugging hardware at a board level.
• Familiarity/Experience working with network stacks and protocols TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT etc.
• Prior experience with AWS, REST API’s and Android App development is a plus.
• Familiarity or experience with Agile/Scrum methodology and practices.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

San Francisco, California.