Software Engineer (4) / Premium Engineer 3

Job Description Software Engineer (4) / Premium Engineer 3

Position: Software Engineer (4) Premium Engineer 3

Location: Dearborn, MI Nearby or Locals

Duration: 12 Months

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Work Arrangement: Hybrid 4 Days/Week Onsite

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Android Full-Stack / Platform Engineer to join the Platform Stability team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience across the Android stack, including AOSP, Android Framework, system_server, native C++, Kotlin, Java, middleware, and vendor layers .

This role focuses on diagnosing and resolving complex Android platform stability issues, reverse-engineering problems from AOSP source code, and providing technical direction for difficult or ambiguous issues.

Must-Have Skills

• 3+ years of hands-on Android Platform/Framework development
• Strong Kotlin, C++, and Java experience
• Hands-on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) development and source-code debugging
• Strong experience with Android Framework / system_server
• Experience with:
  • Activity Manager
  • Window Manager
  • Package Manager
  • SurfaceFlinger
• Experience developing Android middleware and background/foreground services
• Strong knowledge of AIDL / Binder IPC
• Experience troubleshooting:
  • ANR / Application Not Responding
  • Boot failures
  • Black-screen issues
  • Android platform stability problems
• Experience working across framework, native, and vendor layers
• Experience with HAL / Hardware Abstraction Layer
• Ability to modify and debug native Android components using C++
• Experience resolving Android upgrade/integration issues

Preferred Skills

• Android Automotive OS ( AAOS )
• Car Service / CarService
• CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS
• Android graphics/display stack
• GDB / LLDB
• Perfetto / Systrace
• Logcat analysis
• Android Soong / Make build systems
• Android partition architecture
• Experience working with SoC/silicon vendors
• Automotive or embedded Android experience

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop Android middleware and platform-level background services.
• Debug complex Android issues directly from AOSP source code .
• Diagnose and resolve issues across the Android Framework and Vendor layers.
• Debug and modify system_server components.
• Troubleshoot Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, and SurfaceFlinger issues.
• Investigate ANRs, boot failures, black screens, and stability issues .
• Perform root-cause analysis for unknown or difficult-to-reproduce problems.
• Resolve Android upgrade and platform integration issues.
• Address compliance failures across CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS .
• Provide technical direction to engineers on complex platform problems.
• Collaborate with hardware/SoC vendors on platform bring-up and integration.

Education

Required: Bachelor's Degree

Preferred: Master's Degree

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidates will be deep Android platform engineers , not application-level Android developers. Look for candidates with hands-on AOSP + system_server + C++ native components + Kotlin/Java framework development , particularly those who have debugged Android platform stability issues and worked below the Treble boundary.

AAOS/automotive experience is a strong plus but is not mandatory.