Android Framework Engineer

Flock Safety

Android Framework Engineer responsible for developing system services and hardware abstractions for AI-driven cameras at Flock Safety. Join a team focusing on Embedded Systems within a high-impact technology company.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $130,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidJavaJenkinsKotlinRustShell Scripting

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Flock Safety is looking for an Android Framework Engineer to join our Device OS Team.
This is an Embedded Systems role, not a Mobile App role.
You will be responsible for the "guts" of the device, developing the system services, IPC interfaces (AIDL), and hardware abstractions that allow our AI-driven cameras to capture and process data autonomously in the field for years.
If you enjoy working at the intersection of the Android OS and custom hardware, this is your playground.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bring experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
Have developed testable service implementations in Rust/C++
Bring knowledge of the android build system and best practices for API design between kernel and apps
Have strong Kotlin/JAVA development experience such as but not limited to
Exposure to coroutines & OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, deadlocks
Familiar with android profiler & memory leaks/management, etc.
Unit testing, CTS/VTS.
Power and performance optimizations, profiler, perfetto, tracing
Have exposure to or interest in AOSP development:
Including shell scripting experience & init.rc
Exposure to security and SE Policy
Possess strong debugging skills on custom Android HW.
Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack
OTA update experience
Reliability / self-healing
Network / connectivity
Tombstone / bugreport analysis
System app development, methodologies, design patterns, etc.
Have experience with architecture, design, and documentation.
Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility.
Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.
Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support.
ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AIDLHIDLRustC++KotlinJavaunit testingOTA updatesdebuggingsystem app development

Soft Skills

reliabilityself-healingproblem-solvingattention to detailcommunication