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

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Own the overall Android platform architecture and AOSP-based ROM development.

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Define how AI capabilities should be integrated at the OS level.

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Design system services and privileged APIs that allow AI agents to interact with the OS and applications.

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Define system-level permission and security architecture.

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Evaluate Android platform limitations and identify what needs to be modified or extended.

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Work with hardware vendors / ODMs on device integration.

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Lead Android platform engineering and establish technical standards.

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Evaluate technical feasibility and trade-offs for the first phone.

Requirements

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Strong experience with Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

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Deep understanding of Android Framework, System Services and Android internals.

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Experience with Binder IPC, Android permissions, SELinux and system processes.

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Strong Java / Kotlin and C++ knowledge.

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Experience building or modifying Android ROMs.

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Experience shipping Android platform-level features, not just Android applications.

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Strong system architecture and technical leadership experience.

Nice to have

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Experience from Google Android / Pixel, Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO or similar Android platform teams.

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Experience with custom ROM development.

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Experience with Android BSP, HAL and device bring-up.

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Experience with background execution and power optimization.

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Experience integrating AI or ML capabilities at the OS level.

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