Helix AI Engineer, Android

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Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid robot is designed for commercial tasks and the home. We are based in San Jose and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build. We're looking for a Senior Android Engineer with deep expertise in low-level Android systems, the NDK, and real-time sensor and video pipelines. This is not a standard Android app role — you'll be building the mobile application that interfaces directly with our custom sensor hardware over USB, ingests high-frequency camera and IMU data in real time, and runs on-device AI inference at the edge. If you've spent time below the Java/Kotlin layer — writing C/C++ via the NDK, implementing custom HALs, or building zero-copy sensor pipelines — this role was built for you. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build and own the Android application that serves as the primary mobile interface to Figure's humanoid robots, connected via USB Host / Android Open Accessory protocols. Architect high-throughput, zero-drop data ingestion pipelines for high-FPS image sensors and high-frequency IMU data, using zero-copy memory techniques and real-time concurrency models. Implement custom hardware abstraction layers (HAL) and leverage the Android NDK (C/C++) for high-performance, low-latency processing. Optimize CPU/GPU workloads for real-time edge filtering under strict thermal and battery constraints, using foreground services and WorkManager for bulletproof background operation. Integrate on-device AI inference libraries (TFLite, MediaPipe, ONNX Runtime, OpenCV) for real-time computer vision and sensor fusion. g. WebRTC) WHAT W

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