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Senior Android Platform Engineer

Marici SolutionsDearborn, MI🇺🇸United StatesPosted 21 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role at Marici Solutions offers a fantastic opportunity to deepen your expertise in Android platform stability, tackling complex challenges across the entire stack. You'll thrive here if you're a skilled Kotlin, C++, and Java engineer with a passion for intricate debugging and a desire to significantly impact core system reliability. Apply now to join a leading technology company and advance your career in a dynamic environment.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Senior Android Platform Engineer

Location: Dearborn, MI

Position Description:

Android Full-Stack Engineer for platform stability team who will be responsible for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex Android stability issues spanning the entire Android stack both above (System Partition) and below (Vendor Partition) the Treble boundary.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and develop middleware and Android background services for platform-level functionality

2. Debug and reverse-engineer complex issues directly from Android Open Source Project (AOSP) source code Own overall Android platform stability and reliability

3. Resolve Android upgrade and integration issues across releases

4. Diagnose and fix bugs in system_server components (Activity Manager, Window Manager, Package Manager, etc.), Car Service, and SurfaceFlinger

5. Investigate and resolve black screen, boot failure, and ANR (Application Not Responding) issues 6. Resolve and provide technical direction and root-cause analysis for unknown or hard-to-reproduce issues

6. Address and resolve compliance test failures across CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS

Primary Skills Required: Kotlin, C++ and Java

Experience Required:

1. 3+ years of hands-on Android platform/framework development experience.

2. Proven experience in designing and developing middleware and Android background services (long-running/foreground service) that expose feature-rich interfaces (AIDL/Binder, APIs) to applications.

3. Demonstrated track record of resolving complex, low-level Android stability issues.

4. Experience contributing to or modifying AOSP source code

5. Proven experience working across the full Android stack (framework, native services, vendor layers)

Additional Experience Preferred:

1. Experience with Android Automotive OS (AAOS) and Car Service.

2. Familiarity with HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and vendor integration.

3. Experience with CTS, VTS, ATS, and STS compliance frameworks.

4. Knowledge of Android graphics stack and display subsystems.

5. Experience with native debugging tools (gdb, lldb, perfetto, systrace, logcat analysis).

6. Familiarity with Android build systems (Soong/Make) and partition architecture.

7. Experience working with SoC/silicon vendors on platform bring-up

Skills

C++
Java
Kotlin
Android

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