Software Engineer (OS Frameworks) in Glasgow

Software Engineer (OS Frameworks Engineer)

Location: UK Remote

Contract:06 months (Full-time, Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm)

About the Role

As an OS Frameworks Engineer on the Reality Labs team, you will contribute to building innovative hardware and software that profoundly redefine how people work, play, and connect. What we create today has the potential to become the norm tomorrow. To be part of this team is to be at the heart of change and on the frontier of what\’s to come. While we may not have all the answers, together, we are making progress.

What You’ll Do

• Understand industry and technology trends in computing technology to assess and develop new technologies within the Reality Labs roadmap.
• Enable teams to deliver best-in-class experiences for current and future products.
• Build on OS internals and set technical direction for significant improvements.
• Contribute towards building tools, system architecture, frameworks, and infrastructure for any of the following: operating systems, kernel development, low-level debugging, system profiling, AOSP, performance profiling, that will impact VR and AR product lines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, application software engineers, and partners to understand requirements, specify interfaces for new software frameworks, and enhance existing frameworks.
• Develop APIs in the system-level framework layer that enable other layers of the stack to implement compelling and performant use cases.
• Uplift coding and design skills on the team through reviews and the introduction of best practices. Model desired behaviors through clean, readable code, upfront debug-ability, and testability when implementing complex components.
• Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail while advocating for higher product quality and engineering efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor\’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field.
• Experience with cross-functional partnerships, working across functions to drive solutions.
• 6+ years of Software development experience.
• Extensive experience with Android (preferred), Linux, or MacOS internals or frameworks services. Alternatively, experience in developing Embedded engineering solutions within a resource-constrained environment.
• 3+ years of experience in developing any of the following: Operating Systems, AOSP, NDK, Device management on iOS/Android, Device Security, Android Enterprise.
• Experience with coding in both C++ and Java.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with any of the following: Android internals, AOSP, Android SDK, Android NDK, Android JNI, Android IPC mechanisms, Linux OS development.
• Experience with Android performance tools and security models.
• Experience developing software for Mobile platforms (Android/iOS).
• Experience with Android UI frameworks and services.
• Extensive experience with JUnit tests or any unit testing framework.