Embedded Android Platform Developer – Android Automotive Connectivity

Job Description

Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Job Qualifications

Location

Manila, Philippines (Onsite / Hybrid)

Role Summary

We are seeking an Embedded Android Platform Developer to design, integrate, and stabilize Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity on Android Automotive OS (AAOS) / AOSP platforms. The role focuses on hands-on platform development across the Android framework, services, and HAL layers to deliver reliable connectivity features, multi-user/multi-display support, and customer IVI use cases for automotive infotainment systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Android Automotive Connectivity Bring-up
• Integrate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi drivers into AOSP/AAOS.
• Provision, configure, and adjust AOSP components including Vendor HAL, Supplicant HAL, Hostapd HAL, and related codecs.
• Perform platform build, flash, boot validation, and debugging using Android build tools and adb.
• Functional Bring-up & Feature Enablement
• Implement Bluetooth and Wi-Fi functional bring-up across standard profiles, modes, and Android architectures (STA, AP, Wi-Fi Aware, etc.).
• Implement additional BT/Wi-Fi features to improve stability, performance, and robustness beyond baseline connectivity.
• Multi-User / Multi-Display Support
• Enable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi functionality across multiple users and displays in high-integration automotive scenarios.
• Develop required services, AIDL interfaces, and platform glue to support concurrent usage patterns.
• Customer IVI Use Cases
• Implement Bluetooth and Wi-Fi use cases across IVI scenarios, including:
• Concurrent BT connections with smartphones, apps, and accessories
• Bluetooth audio streaming,including dual streaming
• Wi-Fi hotspot, tethering behaviors, traffic shaping, band steering, and reconnection enhancements
• Projected modes (Android Auto, ACP, HiCar) and casting where applicable
• Implement diagnostics,logging,and module-level testing to ensure system stability.
• Follow architect-defined concepts and PoC outputs;implementation is primarily in Kotlin,Java,C/C++,and AIDL.
• Performance & Quality
• Measure and analyze connectivity performance,including Bluetooth audio latency.
• Use Android profiling tools (e.g.Perfetto) to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Strong problem-solving and hands-on mindset
• Effective collaboration with architects,testers,and cross-shore teams
• Ownership of quality,stability,and timely delivery

Required Skills & Experience

Proficient:

• AOSP / Android Automotive platform development
• Bluetooth and Wi-Fi integration in Android
• Android build system,adb,debugging tools
• HIDL / AIDL and binder-based services
• Kotlin and Java; working knowledge of C/C++
• Android performance profiling tools
• Basic:

Bluetooth profiles and Android BT architecture

Wi-Fi standards,modes,and Android Wi-Fi architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of Android or Embedded Android platform development (experience level flexible for strong AOSP profiles)

Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required