Senior Android Engineer with NDK, Telecom exp

Newark, NJ, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago
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Job Details

Skills

  • Android
  • C
  • C++
  • Kotlin
  • Telecommunications
  • NDK
  • 5G

Summary

Role: Senior Android Engineer with NDK, Telecom exp

Location: Basking Ridge, NJ (Onsite)

Duration: Long term 

 

They need someone with NDK experience

 

Job Description:

Seeking a Senior Android Mobile Developer to design, develop, and maintain high-performance Android applications targeting Android 14+. The role requires deep expertise in ICD log capture, permission management, and foreground/background service compliance, ensuring apps meet the latest platform standards, security, and performance requirements.

 

Technical Skills Required:

  • Strong experience in Android app development, targeting Android 14+
  • Experience with Android components using C/C++ via the Android NDK to meet strict performance requirements for real-time applications.
  • Hands-on experience with ICD log capture and analytics integration
  • Expertise in runtime permissions, system permissions, and app security compliance
  • Strong knowledge of foreground and background services, including WorkManager, JobScheduler, and Service lifecycle management
  • Proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java for Android development
  • Strong Knowledge in Android SDK, Jetpack components, modern architecture patterns (MVVM, Clean)
  • Experience with performance profiling, memory management, and battery optimization
  • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
  • Understand that standard Android garbage collection.
  • Domain Knowledge (Critical):

o Telecom Protocols: Deep understanding of LTE, 5G SA/NSA, RSRP, and signaling messages.

o Embedded Systems: Experience treating a mobile device like an embedded system. You must understand how to interact with drivers and system libraries,.

o Hardware Familiarity: Experience with Qualcomm chipsets and their logging formats (ICDs).

 

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with multi-process or multi-threaded Android applications
  • Familiarity with log aggregation, crash reporting, or telemetry frameworks (Firebase, Sentry, Logcat parsers)

 

Responsibilities:

  • High-Performance Packet Processing: Optimize the application to handle extreme throughput. In 5G throughput scenarios. You must manage memory allocation (malloc/paging) and instruction sets to prevent data loss or device crashes.
  • Real-Time Analytics & Logic: Implement complex logic to calculate KPIs (e.g., latency, velocity, handover interruption time) in real-time. You are not just dumping logs to a file; you are processing threads to display live network metrics to the user.
  • Multi-Threading & Concurrency: Manage a highly concurrent environment simultaneously to balance UI updates, packet parsing, and background data transmission.
  • Parser Implementation: Work with Interface Control Documents (ICDs) from chipset vendors (Qualcomm, MediaTek) to update the "Single Parser" logic. This involves decoding binary payloads into human-readable metrics.

 

Education:

  • Bachelor''s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

 

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  • Dice Id: 91172920
  • Position Id: 8901352
  • Posted 1 day ago
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