Flock Safety · 1 month ago
Embedded Software Engineer, Android
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$130K/yr - $160K/yrFlock Safety is a leading safety technology platform focused on proactive crime prevention and security. The role involves diving deep into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to develop critical device functionality and system services for custom Android devices.
ManufacturingPublic SafetySecuritySensor
Responsibilities
Take ownership of a feature or module and deliver it with high quality
Be responsible for a certain amount of QA and quality of your work
Write clean, testable, and automatable code
Document your work and test cases, and collaborate with program, product, QA, and other engineering teams
Estimate work with reasonable accuracy and communicate adjustments as needed
Assist in resolving issues reported in the field
Identify and champion new features that will benefit Flock
Identify and improve upon deficiencies in our products and processes
Give tech talks
Qualification
Required
Experience with Android Open Source Project (AOSP) & Framework
Experience designing versioned service interfaces via AIDL/HIDL to expose device functionality to headless Kotlin apps via a custom SDK
Developed production-ready, testable system service implementations in Rust and C++
Knowledge of the Android build system and best practices for API design between the kernel and apps
Strong Kotlin/Java development experience for system-level components and privileged apps
Exposure to coroutines and OS threading concepts such as semaphores, synchronization, and deadlocks
Familiarity with the Android profiler, memory leak detection, and memory management
Unit testing using JUnit and MockK, using facades and dependency injection
Shell scripting experience and init.rc
Exposure to security and SEPolicy
Strong debugging skills on custom Android hardware
Ability to trace app code through different layers of the stack
Understand system app development, methodologies, and design patterns
Experience with architecture, design, and documentation
Skilled in Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, and Git/GitHub
Preferred
C/C++ skills and expertise with lower levels of the stack, such as the kernel, services, bootloaders, etc
Proficient in networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, and network troubleshooting
Experience working on Linux platforms, including Embedded Linux
Familiarity with tools like Perfetto for debugging and performance analysis
Familiarity with Qualcomm-based Android devices
Experience with the Qualcomm Camera Stack
Experience with the Rust programming language
Ability to write automation shell scripts to improve personal and team productivity
Benefits
Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility.
Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.
Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support.
ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.
Company
Flock Safety
Flock Safety provides end-to-end surveillance solutions to support law enforcement and communities.
Founded in 2017
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
2022 (2)
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$655.58MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzTiger Global ManagementMeritech Capital Partners
2025-03-13Series F· $275M
2022-02-15Series E· $150M
2021-07-13Series D· $150M
Leadership Team
Garrett Langley
Founder & CEO
Mandy Schuler
Vice President Supply Chain
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