Job Opportunity for Android Engineer at Wadhwani AI in Delhi

Wadhwani AI is seeking an Android Engineer to join our team and help us build AI-enabled solutions for billions of people in poor and underserved communities. The ideal candidate will have broad experience in architecting and deploying Android-based mobile solutions to real problems for a wide range of digital-first as well as non-native users.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As an android engineer, you will be responsible for building mobile solutions to problems of societal importance. You will participate in problem definitions, and the development of android applications, libraries and SDKs that partner organizations and developers can leverage to address specific problems across our existing projects in healthcare and agriculture.

In solving these problems, you will be expected to leverage in-house and third party interfaces, and put in place automation and testing pipelines for these applications making use of software engineering best practices to ensure maintainable, debuggable and future-proof solutions. 

At Wadhwani AI, excellence as an individual contributor goes hand-in-hand with good teamwork and collaboration. In order to develop solutions for social impact, you will need to understand user challenges and their context and work in cross-functional teams spanning research, engineering, programs, product and design, in order to co-create solutions.  

You will also be expected to interact with external partners of Wadhwani AI when required, and to make periodic visits to the communities from where our problem statements are derived and where the solutions will be deployed.

REQUIREMENTS

• A keen interest in applying skills towards solving problems for the bottom of the pyramid.
• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Physics, an Engineering Discipline or equivalent industry experience. 
• Broad exposure optimizing and debugging software mobile applications for correctness and performance issues, creating SDKs and libraries and the associated documentation and tooling for partners and developers. 
• Awareness of current best practices in Android development and experience integrating with libraries and frameworks like Retrofit, Firebase, Crashlytics, etc.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and computer systems and good understanding of the software development and deployment lifecycle including code versioning, build and test automation frameworks.  
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work in cross-functional teams and a track record of driving projects to completion.
• Experience with open-source projects and high performance systems is a plus. 

ABOUT WADHWANI AI

The Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is an independent nonprofit research institute developing AI solutions for poor and undersered communities. Our mission is to harness the power of AI and data science to overcome challenges in domains such as health, agriculture, financial inclusion, and infrastructure.

Our team consists of world-renowned scientists, innovators, and entrepreneurs from Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and the IITs, with experience at companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and DE Shaw. We partner with academic institutions, governments, social sector organisations and domain experts to ensure our innovations are accessible to those who need them the most.