Senior/Staff AOSP Platform Engineer
Blue, Santa Clara, California
About the job
About Blue: Blue is building a new kind of phone, with your chief of staff built in. Blue sees what you do and reads every notification, text, and email for you. Based on everything it’s learned about you, it decides what to do with each one: handle it and leave you an FYI, or draft a reply and wait for your OK. And anything else in your life is one button away from being off your plate.
It works from day one. When you switch, Blue reads everything that comes over from your iPhone, so it already knows the people in your life, how you write, and the passwords, cards, and IDs it needs, kept in a secure vault you both share. No onboarding, and no explaining yourself.
Delegation this deep isn’t possible from an app. It takes owning the operating system and, ultimately, the hardware. Today the Blue OS runs on Google Pixel hardware while our own hardware is in development. We’re Y Combinator-backed, seed-funded, and our first customers already use it as their daily phone.
The role
You will own Blue OS below the app layer: the system image, framework and SystemUI changes, privileged services, and the release pipeline that gets each build onto customers' phones. When a build goes out, you decide whether it is ready and how it rolls out. This role is as much about safety, review and releases, as new features. Expect to say no.