Staff Android Developer – Infotainment

Vacancy Status:
This posting is for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications. (Backfill)

AI Disclosure:

As part of the application process Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role

Hybrid :
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Markham Elevation Center three times per week at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

About the role:

The Staff Android Developer Infotainment is a senior technical leader responsible for designing building and evolving in-vehicle Android applications and platform components that power our infotainment experiences. This role sets technical direction for a product area drives cross-team alignment and raises the bar for Android engineering quality across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and implementation of complex Android infotainment features and services from requirements through deployment and maintenance.

• Define and evolve application and system architectures (e.g. modularization data contracts error handling state management) across multiple apps and services.

• Lead technical investigations and resolution of complex issues involving Android framework vehicle services vendor stacks and hardware constraints.

• Partner with Product UX Systems and Platform teams to translate PRDs and system requirements into robust Android designs.

• Guidethe adoption of best practices for performance stability observability and testability in an in-vehicle environment.

• Mentor and coach other engineers providing guidance on design reviews code quality and debugging strategies.

• Influence platform and toolchain decisions (Android version upgrades AGP/JDK/Kotlin moves CI/CD quality gates) and drive their rollout.

• Collaborate with Tier-1/SOC vendors and internal platform teams on Android bring-up integration and certification topics.

Core Technical Requirements:

• 810 years of professional Android development experience including shipping andoperatinglarge complex apps or system components in production.

• Strongproficiencyin Kotlin and Java; comfort with C/Golangfor performance-critical or legacy components.

• Deep understanding of Android internals and app architecture:

• Components lifecycles concurrency permissions multi-processand multi-user behavior.

• Modern patterns such as MVVM and Clean Architecture with a focus on testability and clear boundaries.

• Development experience in 3D Filament/Unreal/Unity/OpenGL ES/Vulkan

• Experience with large modular Gradle-based Android codebases (multi-module projects shared libraries feature flags)and usage of AI (Curson/Claude) in development.

Android Automotive / Infotainment Experience:

• Hands-on experience building applications or middleware for Android Automotive or other embedded/IVI systems.

• Familiarity with AAOS/AOSP for automotive:

• Framework servicesCarService VHAL/CarProperty and profile/user models.

• Platform constraints and safety/distraction considerations for in-vehicle UIs.

• Experience integrating infotainment apps with:

• Vehicle signals and services (e.g. vehicle data profiles settings).

• Audio media Bluetooth connectivity navigation or projection stacks (Android Auto CarPlay).

System Design Performance and Reliability:

• Proven ability to design scalable maintainable architectures that work under tight CPU memory storage and boot-time constraints.

• Experience analyzing and improving performance (startup time rendering memory threading) in resource-constrained or real-time environments.

• Strong debugging skills across the Android stack (logs traces ANRs crashes binder issues resource leaks).

Platform Build and Tooling:

• Deep experience with Gradle Android Gradle Plugin and Android SDK/NDK tooling (build optimization dependency management reproducible builds).

• Proven experience contributing to multi-release Android platform upgrades (e.g. 2 major version jumps):

• Resolving API and behavior changes.

• Updating AGP/JDK/Kotlin and SDK/build-tools.

• Coordinating regression-fix efforts across multiple teams.

• Comfortable working directly with AOSP-style trees and manifests (repo branches rebases vendor drops).

Quality Testing and Observability:

• Strong background in automated testing:

• Unit tests (JUnit) instrumentation/UI tests (Espresso) and integration tests.

• Testable design and dependency injection for Android components.

• Experience with code-quality and static-analysis tooling (e.g. lint coverage SonarQube or equivalent) and integrating them into CI pipelines.

• Ability to define logging metrics and analytics strategies suited for in-vehicle systems with intermittent connectivity and strict safety/privacy requirements.

Leadership and Collaboration:

• Demonstratedtrack recordof technical leadership:

• Setting technical direction for a domain or product area.

• Driving alignment across multiplefeatureor platform teams.

• Experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers; raising code and design-review standards.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product UX Systems DevOps QA and external partners.

• Clear concise communication of complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Google Automotive Services (GAS) certification requirements orxTS(CTS/VTS/XTS) test suites.

• Background in safety- or security-sensitive domains (e.g. automotive aerospace medical devices) with relevant coding or process standards.

• Familiarity with virtualization or bench-based development and testing workflows for infotainment systems.

Education and Training

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering Computer Science ComputerEngineeringor Software Engineering.
  
  Compensation:

  The salary range for this role is $147000 to $196600. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

  
  
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  Benefits:

  The goal of the General Motors of Canada total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan currently includes the following benefits in addition to many others:

• Paid time off including vacation days holidays and supplemental benefits for pregnancy parental and adoption leave.
• Healthcare dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you your family and friends.