Senior Android System Engineer

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🔥 17 minutes ago

🇭🇷 Croatia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Newfire Global Partners is an American IT services and advisory firm (founded in 2016 in Boston) that provides talent augmentation, software engineering, data & analytics, and AI/ML advisory to enterprise and investor clients. The company offers multidisciplinary engineering, product, and marketing teams, technical due diligence for VC/PE, data platform optimization, and an internal ML tool (Novel Heat) to improve code quality and Scrum velocity. Newfire operates across the Americas, Europe, and APAC with a 24x5 follow-the-sun delivery model and focuses on sectors such as digital healthcare, fintech, cybersecurity, and education technology.

📋 Description

• Build, sign, and maintain custom AOSP images • Write patches to mainline modules such as NetworkStack and apply them to the OEM's RK-class tree • Implement privileged system-level capabilities, including OTA application via update_engine, remote reset, system log capture, input injection, screen capture, and device identity using mTLS/hardware attestation • Evaluate technical tradeoffs and prototype solutions to inform roadmap decisions • Collaborate with hardware partners on device-level capabilities, privileged app permissions, and custom OS integrations • Verify behavior on real devices • Maintain the Kotlin on-device agent and integrate it with the MDM and OTA/remote-management backend • Participate in sprint ceremonies and peer code reviews • Work with product management and client engineering leads across parallel technical tracks • Participate in hiring processes as an interview panelist

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience building and modifying custom Android builds (AOSP), including Soong/Make, platform/AVB/OTA key signing, custom system images, and applying patches to a vendor BSP tree • Experience with Rockchip/RK-class SoCs is a plus • Deep privileged/system-app experience, including platform-signed apps, @SystemApi/hidden-API usage, SELinux/sepolicy, Device Owner, and Device Policy Manager APIs • OTA/firmware update experience with update_engine, A/B or Virtual A/B, AVB, OTA packaging and signing, and rollback behavior • Experience with system-level Android capabilities including remote factory reset, system-level log capture, input injection, screen capture, adbd, and OS-level networking • Proven ability to interface directly with device OEMs/manufacturers and debug SDKs, system permissions, and hardware-software integration constraints • Track record of driving technical research spikes and presenting recommendations to stakeholders • Experience integrating with a third-party MDM and/or building enrollment, remote-management, and OTA workflows for managed hardware fleets • Clear verbal and written communication skills • Familiarity with clinical environments, EHR integrations, or HIPAA compliance is nice to have • C/C++/native, kernel, or U-Boot familiarity is nice to have • Strong understanding of REST architecture and OOP principles/design is nice to have • Legal work authorization in the country of residence, documented in accordance with applicable law

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