Senior Android Platform Engineer

Waymo's commercial service is running in five cities, and the associated infrastructure is in an early stage and requires investment for Waymo to grow into a high scale, world-class service.

We are building a team of engineers dedicated to further developing our Android Platform team. Our team works on the user interfaces used by customers to interact with our autonomous vehicles as well as provide entertainment and information while riding. This is a fullstack team, managing the bring up and maintenance of a complete automotive grade Android system.

In this hybrid role, you will report to an Engineering Manager.

You will:

• Evaluate SoC vendor development kits
• Develop update mechanism for Android OS and applications
• Work with vendors, HW team and other stakeholders to define requirements for next UX platform
• Bring up Android on new hardware
• Provide technical support for other teams working on our Android devices

You have:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
• Experience working with low-level Android/AOSP (building Android platform features, frameworks), not just developing apps on top of Android
• Worked with git, repo and gerrit

We prefer:

• Brought up Android on new hardware, or customized a build of Android for a new hardware variant
• Experience with security aspects of Android, SELinux and key provisioning

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