# Principal Android Engineer

What Success Looks Like (Objectives): Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview, which may include a live whiteboarding or technical assessment session. Enterprise Android deployments require robust architecture, reliable playback, and enterprise-grade observability across diverse device fleets. The Principal Android Engineer solves critical scale and stability challenges across the full Android stack, from low-level media playback engines to modular application frameworks. As a thought leader and technical anchor, this role not only shapes the internal architecture but also drives outward-facing integration projects and aligns engineering deliverables with overarching business goals. This position establishes technical roadmaps, sets engineering standards, and optimizes release pipelines for mission-critical customer software. By integrating modern Android architectures and AI-assisted engineering workflows, the role ensures operational reliability and continuous system performance across all deployed hardware. What Success Looks Like (Objectives) Act as the technical anchor for the business, translating overarching company objectives into actio

- **Id**: 4245578
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/echostar-principal-android-engineer>
- **Role**: Mobile
- **Role family**: Mobile
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Englewood, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-23T19:51:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T18:56:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 113
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 12091
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Internet Service Providers, Mobile Networks, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 1846584
- **Name**: EchoStar
- **Domain**: echostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/echostar>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

## Salary

- **Min**: 127050
- **Max**: 181500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 181500

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Exoplayer** — Optional: no
- **Jetpack Compose** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin Coroutines** — Optional: no
- **Media3** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 113

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: close; At: 2026-11-13T12:29:26Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T12:32:45Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-13T18:56:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.311
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 113
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T23:14:15Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 181500
- **Is top pay**: no

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