Member of Technical Staff, Android Platform (AOSP)
logcat.ai
India, United StatesremotePosted 7 days ago
Skill Required
Android-Platform-EngineeringSystems-EngineerAndroid-Systems-EngineerEmbedded-Systems-EngineerMobile-Systems-EngineerAndroid-Software-EngineerAndroid-BSP-EngineerAndroid-EngineerAndroid-Firmware-EngineerTechnical LeadAndroidEngineeringLinuxandGoAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Compensation: Top-of-market salary and founding equity
- Benefit: Comprehensive medical insurance for employee and family
- Requirement: Proficiency in CLI-based AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code)
- Notable Requirement: Experience with AOSP-based production builds or platform root-causing
Role overview
logcat.ai is the AI engineering layer for the operating-system stack, building agentic systems for Linux and Android devices to help device makers diagnose, remediate, test, and author features across their OS stack. As a VC-backed startup with a small, senior team, this role involves working directly with the founders to make the platform's Android reasoning sharper and investigate failures below the SDK.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside a founder on Android platform investigations and remediations, and be the one who can take over when they're on something else.
- Join customer calls as the Android platform expert: explain what failed, why, and what the fix should be.
- Check the platform's Android analysis against what actually happened on the device, and say plainly where it's wrong.
- Encode platform reasoning (system services, binder, HALs, init, SELinux, the vendor and system split) so the platform gets it right without you in the room.
Requirements
- At least two of: Shipped a system service, daemon or privileged component on a production AOSP-based build that other people's devices ran; Owned its SELinux policy, init configuration or platform signing; Carried a device or vendor tree through a major Android version upgrade; Root-caused a platform failure (system_server, binder, a HAL, an ANR storm) from a bugreport and fixed it in platform code.
- You take devices apart for fun. You root your own phones, build and flash your own kernels, and have a dev board or two on your desk.
- You can walk a customer's engineers through a root cause clearly, in English, and hold your ground when the evidence is on your side.
- Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent).
- Must be eligible to work in the country you're based in.
Nice to have
- Cellular modem work at the RIL and radio HAL boundary.
- Linux kernel and driver work, including reading kernel crash dumps.
- Treble, GKI and vendor interface work.
- OEM or ODM experience shipping devices.
- On-device agents for fleets or device management.
- Accepted contributions to AOSP.
Benefits
- Top-of-market salary and founding equity.
- Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.
- Start-up perks and flexible time off, the kind people actually take.
- The AI tools you need for writing code, reviewing it, research, ops, and internal tooling.
- A front seat as we scale (customer calls, the roadmap, the pipeline, how the company is actually doing).
- Early ownership and full visibility.
- A small team that's easy to work with.
Additional details
- The role is remote, with at least 4 hours of daily overlap with Pacific or IST based on location.
- Preference for someone who can be on-site in Seattle or Bengaluru, but it isn't required.
- This is not an app development role; you'll work below the SDK.
- Recently raised a $2.55M pre-seed.
- Application process: Screening call with Head of People & Business Operations, Technical conversation with Co-founder/ CEO, Technical exercise with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering, Final conversation with Co-founder/ CEO, References, then offer.
- In your application, tell us what you'd own here, and the hardest thing you've shipped. A link to something you've built beats a resume.
- Originally posted on Himalayas