Staff Android Software Engineer, Android System UI

In this role, you will be developing highly visible features where you can clearly trace your code's contribution running on actual devices. You will engineer features at the heart of Android UI and take ownership of improving the underlying Android Framework components that power experiences like widgets and shortcuts. This involves working within framework internals, refining APIs for robustness and performance, and considering the technical needs of developers across the ecosystem who rely on these foundations. You will also work closely with product, design, and research, and engage technically with numerous partner teams and developer relations to define the developer experience for applications building widgets and shortcuts. Responsibilities: Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Influence and coach engineers. In this role, you will be developing highly visible features where you can clearly trace your code's contribution running on actual devices. You will engineer features at the heart of Android UI and take ownership of improving the underlying Android Framework components that power experiences like widgets and shortcuts. This involves working within framework internals, refining APIs for robustness and performance, and considering the technical needs of developers across the ecosystem who rely on these foundations. You will also work closely with product, design, and research, and engage technically with numerous partner teams and developer relations to define the developer experience for applications building widgets and shortcuts. Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world. The AI and Infrastructure team works on the world’s toughest problems, redefining what’s possible and the possible easy. We empower Google customers by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Googler Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We’re at the center of amazing work at Google by being the “flywheel” that enables our advanced AI models, delivers computing power across global services, and offers platforms that developers use to build services.