Helix AI Engineer (Android)

Join our Helix team as an Android Engineer, where you'll develop native mobile tools that support key AI research functions. This high-ownership role involves designing and building Android applications for robot data annotation, dataset review, and experiment tracking in the field. You'll work closely with AI researchers, robot operators, and annotators to create new mobile-first user experiences. The ideal candidate has at least 4 years of experience building native Android applications and a strong background in software engineering.

• Design and build native Android applications for robot data annotation, dataset review, and experiment tracking in the field.
• Build fast, reliable mobile experiences for real-time and near-real-time data capture alongside live robot operation.
• Utilize data-driven techniques to optimize interfaces for efficiency and fast iteration cycles.
• The ideal candidate has deep experience building rich, performant native Android applications and wants their tools used daily by researchers, robot operators, and annotators
• Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building native Android applications
• Proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, and the modern Android toolchain (Jetpack Compose, Android SDK/NDK)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Experience integrating with data stores (Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.)
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience building data annotation, dataset management, or field-data-collection tools
• Experience with React/TypeScript or other web frontend frameworks, for close collaboration with web tooling counterparts