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Overview:

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Lead BSP SW development for Android mobile device and responsible for leading the requirement analysis, conceptualizing, design, development, and maintenance of a mobile device. Interface with product marketing, system engineering, respective hardware engineering counterparts and third-party vendors delivering a product. Work is accomplished without considerable direction. Exerts significant latitude in determining objectives of assignment. Represent the team as the single point of contact for software development for the product.

Responsibilities:

– Establishes requirements for highly complex software design projects and will lead a team responsible for establishing requirements. Ensure correct features are incorporated first in the projects.

– Architects and designs highly complex software projects. Completes all phases of the projects. Follows through on all in-process and final inspection activities.

– Influence the product design working with electrical, mechanical and RF leadership withing the project team.

– lead the development and customization of the Android BSP for specific hardware platforms. This involves working closely with hardware engineers, understanding the system architecture, and creating a robust BSP that integrates with the underlying hardware components.

– Creates new programs, technologies and solutions based on novel or unique ideas. Ensures new ideas and methodologies are documented for use by software teams.

– Uses status as a knowledge leader in software design and functional knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines and program management to provide technical leadership to a given program.

– Interface with system engineers, product managers, program management and system testing teams and initiates cross-company collaboration and develops positive relationships with other engineering disciplines.

– Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise. Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizational lines. Represent the organization as the principal customer contact and often performs project leadership.

– As a lead need to understand and have the working knowledge to configure and customize the Linux kernel to support the target hardware. This includes working with various component vendors to get the appropriate drivers to support the platform.

– Work with internal and external partners to do initial board bring up activities for new product introduction (NPI).

– As a SW leader, you are expected to work with internal and external parties to integrate the appropriate SW modules to the BSP.

– Plan, document and manage the feature backlog for the product using Agile principles.

– Carry out code and design reviews of components that are integrated/submitted to the BSP.

– Different products you would work on will be for different segments/domains hence will have different performance criteria and you are expected to work with a team to optimize these parameters to get the best possible performance criteria possible for the product.

– Coordinating BSP releases, version control, and maintaining repositories are part of your responsibilities.

– Be able to do initial level triaging investigation when an issue is reported before the issue is assigned to a designated engineer.

– Defect management, maintain defect dashboards, assess issues, and assign priorities, arrange bug scrubs when necessary

– Lead reviews with internal and external teams and represent the team when supporting customer issues and queries.

– Exercises judgment (within broadly defined policies and practices) in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline required.

– Minimum of 8+ years of work experience or 5 years of relevant experience with a master’s degree.

– Have prior hands-on experience with Android BSP development and has 3+ years’ experience Customizing and Porting of Android OS Stack

– Proficient in Java/C/C+

• Preferred Qualification:

  – Prior experience working on Qualcomm architecture is highly desired

  – Agile Scrum development methodologies

  – Good Knowledge on operating systems, Linux kernel, bootloaders, power management

  – Understanding on I2C, SPI, USB, RS232 Protocols

  – Familiar with Android build tool chain

  – Working knowledge of JIRA, Git/Gerrit

  – Android Studio and basic App development knowledge

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