Member of Technical Staff, Device Platform - Midas Management and Research

Role: Member of Technical Staff, Device Platform
Location: Santa Monica, CA (Can be initial remote )
Duration/Type: Fulltime
Job Description:
The device platform team builds software clients and operating systems running on our hardware devices: this includes r1, among other unannounced projects. You will be working closely with our cloud and applied AI teams to implement OS on mobile form factors, influencing endeavours to make our devices run more smoothly and robustly, consume less energy and are secure and private for our users.
Responsibilities:

• Customize our on-device operating system and perform various performance benchmarks and optimizations.
• Implement UI and UX features for our hardware experience, including animations, text display, and interaction patterns, with guidance from our design team.
• Integrate machine learning features such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, and computer vision into our operating system, in tandem with its cloud counterparts.
• Collaborate with our cloud team to co-implement and optimize communication protocols between our device and OS.
• Independently execute tasks, solve problems, and report to technical leadership, to lead a broader team of full-time employees and interns.

• Experience with framework-level customization of AOSP
• Experience with Flutter
• Experience developing applications with a tablet form factor
• Experience collaborating with or reporting to interface designers, interaction designers, and product designers
• Experience with on-device audio processing (playback, capture, noise & echo cancellation)
• Experience with real-time communication protocols including WebSocket, WebRTC, etc.