Senior Android Platform engineer (W2/1099 only)

Need candidates on W2/1099

Senior Android platform engineer ( AOSP )

Portland, Oregon

Job Description

We are seeking a senior Android platform engineer to lead the design, implementation, integration, and optimization of the Android AOSP software stack for the PAC Seat Box. The engineer will translate in-flight entertainment (IFE) use cases into robust platform capabilities across the Android framework, native services, hardware abstraction layers, display and media paths, and system observability. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership and requires close collaboration across internal product, architecture, applications, multimedia, validation, security, BSP, QNX/Linux, and hardware teams, as well as external chipset and technology partners.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Android architecture: System Services, Binder/AIDL, HALs, init, SELinux, permissions, process lifecycle
• Graphics/display stack: SurfaceFlinger, WindowManager, DisplayManager, Hardware Composer, Gralloc
• Media: Codec2/MediaCodec, AudioFlinger/Audio HAL, DRM
• Input, lights, thermal and power HALs
• Android build systems, Linux, Git, shell scripting, and Python
• Android integration with vendor BSPs, kernel drivers, SoC platforms and hardware peripherals
• System-level debugging using logs, traces, dumpsys, debugfs/sysfs, tombstones and kernel logs
• Performance profiling and optimization of embedded/resource-constrained systems
• Experience with telemetry, observability, metrics, logging, and tracing
• Technical leadership, architecture/design, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring
• 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.
• Experience with GitLab CI, automated hardware validation, test orchestration, performance dashboards, JIRA, Jama, and Confluence.