Principal Software Engineer - Android (Hybrid Position, Aachen or Ulm)

A Moving Experience.

Fantastic opportunity to work in conjunction with our partner on top leading‑edge technology, driving innovation in the automotive marketplace. Define the speech framework software package in cooperation with customers and R&D. Define and develop the Android AIDL interfaces to the Android speech assistant and to other Android components. This includes data preparation for different use cases and robust system design regarding latency, memory and CPU consumption, application lifecycle management and optimization of startup time.

Responsibilities

• Analyze product requirements and liaise with R&D and developers to define framework configuration and setup.
• Work together with framework team on requirements and optimal configuration for specific customer projects.
• Implement high‑level, customer‑specific speech dialog interface using Android infrastructure and AIDL description.
• Analyze and implement dependencies to other Android native interfaces to the customer‑specific Android Speech Assistant and to different speech‑controlled applications including cloud‑based components.
• Perform memory and CPU measurements on target platform.
• Collaborate with development and R&D for improving latency, memory and CPU consumption.
• Work with project team on localization and reproduction of defects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong experience with Android, Java, Kotlin, and C/C++.
• Detailed understanding of Android architecture and elements such as AIDL, Binder, Lifecycle, System Services, Android Framework, and AOSP.
• Experience programming with scripting language Python.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and German.
• Positive “can‑do” attitude, well organized, focusing on achieving results cost‑effectively.
• Ability and willingness to handle occasional peak demands.
• Willingness to travel for short trips.

Preferred skills

• Source control tools (Git/GitLab and Artifactory).
• Embedded software development.
• Unit Test Frameworks (Google Test and Jest).
• Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence).
• Speech recognition or related technologies.
• Agile methods like SCRUM.
• ASPICE.

Education

Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, software engineering, computer linguistics, or equivalent.

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