Android Framework Engineer, Flock Safety

• Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
• Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++
• Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps
• Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to
• Exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks
• Familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc
• Unit testing, CTS/VTS
• Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing
• Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development:
• Including shell scripting experience & init.rc
• Exposure to security and SE Policy
• Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW
• Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack
• OTA update experience
• Reliability / self-healing
• Network / connectivity
• Tombstone / bugreport analysis
• System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc
• Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation
• Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub

Desirable

• Flock Safety is looking for an Android Framework Engineer to join our Device OS Team
• To be clear: this is an Embedded Systems role, not a Mobile App role. We build on headless, custom AOSP builds—meaning there are no UI components, no Fragments, and no Play Store
• You will be responsible for the "guts" of the device, developing the system services, IPC interfaces (AIDL), and hardware abstractions that allow our AI-driven cameras to capture and process data autonomously in the field for years
• If you enjoy working at the intersection of the Android OS and custom hardware, this is your playground
• 90 Days at Flock
• We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as an Android Framework Engineer at Flock Safety
• The First 30 Days
• Learn as much as possible about Flock's devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements
• Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering Team
• Understand Flock device product goals and system design
• The First 60 Days
• Contribute to system apps development
• Contribute to system services development
• Expand the use and accessibility to engineers
• 90 Days & Beyond
• Be a key contributor to system apps and system services
• Be a key contributor in developing the new products and the next generation
• Play a central role in streamlining the code to ensure it supports multiple platforms