AI Phone - Head of Android / AOSP

About

We are reimagining the phone. AI phones need to be proactive, intuitive, intelligent and low cost. This is a mission critical for rest of the world to adopt intelligence.

There are over 5 billion people using everyday applications such as email, messaging, notes, tasks, and calendars, yet most are not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications and devices that bring intelligence into daily conversations, coordination and workflows, with minimal prompting.

Focus: Android OS, custom ROM, system architecture and hardware integration.

Responsibilities

Own the overall Android platform architecture and AOSP-based ROM development.; Define how AI capabilities should be integrated at the OS level.; Design system services and privileged APIs that allow AI agents to interact with the OS and applications.; Define system-level permission and security architecture.; Evaluate Android platform limitations and identify what needs to be modified or extended.; Work with hardware vendors / ODMs on device integration.; Lead Android platform engineering and establish technical standards.; Evaluate technical feasibility and trade-offs for the first phone.

Requirements

Strong experience with Android Open Source Project (AOSP).; Deep understanding of Android Framework, System Services and Android internals.; Experience with Binder IPC, Android permissions, SELinux and system processes.; Strong Java / Kotlin and C++ knowledge.; Experience building or modifying Android ROMs.; Experience shipping Android platform-level features, not just Android applications.; Strong system architecture and technical leadership experience.

Nice to have

Experience from Google Android / Pixel, Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO or similar Android platform teams.; Experience with custom ROM development.; Experience with Android BSP, HAL and device bring-up.; Experience with background execution and power optimization.; Experience integrating AI or ML capabilities at the OS level.