About the role
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.
Originally posted on Himalayas