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Your expertise in Android internals, application modification, software modification, and firmware modification will enable you to analyze and understand the underlying mechanics of the Android ecosystem.\nYou will deliver complex projects working individually or within / leading a team, delivering industry leading research and critical capabilities to our customers. Tasks may range from understanding Android and building AOSP, researching its internals for opportunities and its applications inside out and, not limited to network forensics, forensics, SRE both static and dynamically and building/pathing APK’s. By their nature, these tasks are often objective-driven and require an inquisitive mindset to develop innovative solutions that may not be immediately obvious.\nIn this role you will be researching new emerging technologies in Android to understand and evaluate features and functions that impact our customers. 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