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.