What are the responsibilities and job description for the Android Embedded Engineer position at SDH Systems?
Job Title: Android AOSP SW Engineer
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Visa: Any
Interview Process: Video (2 Rounds)
Work Schedule: Onsite
Job Description:
o Must-haves:
Extensive professional experience developing and debugging Android platform software, with strong hands-on experience in AOSP framework and native layers.
Strong C/C and Java or Kotlin skills; proficiency with Android build systems, Linux development environments, Git, shell scripting, and Python.
Deep knowledge of Android architecture, including system services, Binder/AIDL, HALs, init, SELinux, permissions, process lifecycle, memory management, graphics/display, input, media, and power or thermal behavior.
Experience integrating Android with vendor BSPs, kernel drivers, SoC platforms, hardware peripherals, or virtualized systems.
Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize complex embedded or resource-constrained systems using quantitative evidence.
Experience designing telemetry or observability for embedded platforms, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, crash/ANR analysis, and health monitoring.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills for working with distributed teams, product and system stakeholders, and external vendors.
Experience with Android Automotive OS or adapting automotive-oriented Android components for non-automotive embedded use cases.
Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, vendor Android forks, GPU/media acceleration, display pipelines, memory carve-outs, and chipset-vendor debugging workflows.
Experience with hypervisors and multi-VM systems, including Android guests interacting with QNX or Linux management domains through VirtIO or custom IPC.
Knowledge of IFE systems, seat-end architectures, aircraft offerability, secure media playback, Widevine/DRM, audio/video pipelines, and passenger-facing reliability expectations.
Experience with SurfaceFlinger, WindowManager, DisplayManager, Hardware Composer, Gralloc, Codec2/MediaCodec, AudioFlinger/Audio HAL, input, lights, thermal, and power HALs.
Familiarity with Android compatibility and security validation such as CTS/VTS, SELinux policy, verified boot, secure update, and vulnerability remediation.
o Nice-to-haves:
10 years of experience in embedded software development.
Experience with infotainment systems based on Qualcomm SoCs.
Familiarity with QNX Hypervisor.
Understanding of TCP/IP and HTTP/HTTPS protocols.
Familiarity with wireless technologies (Bluetooth, WiFi), satellite connectivity solutions.