Android OTA/FOTA Engineer

About the role

Experience: 5+ years. Platform: Android. Responsible for integrating the OMA-DM / FOTA client into the Android 16 OTA path and supporting safe device-fleet updates, rollback and carrier device-management requirements.

Responsibilities

• Integrate OMA-DM/FOTA client into the Android 16 OTA path.
• Implement A/B or Virtual A/B updates using update_engine, including automatic rollback.
• Build campaign hooks between the device and device-maker DM server.
• Implement carrier-required DM behaviors and policy hooks.
• Build full and incremental OTA packages with the BSP team.
• Execute FOTA campaign and rollback regression testing.
• Produce the OTADM evidence pack for carrier submission.

Skills

Mandatory Skills

• Hands-on Android OTA integration: update_engine, A/B or Virtual A/B, OTA package generation and AVB.
• OMA-DM protocol knowledge: DM Tree, Management Objects, Sessions and FUMO.
• Strong Java and C++.
• Android system services and Binder.
• Experience debugging failed updates and recovering bricked/partially updated devices.

Preferred Skills

• US carrier OTADM / device-management certification experience.
• Commercial DM client integration / third-party FOTA vendors.
• Experience changing device partition layout or update schemes across Android versions.