Android Engineer

About AIM Defence

AIM builds high‑power lasers that protect people from weaponised drones.

We are an engineering-led, focused, disciplined, and lean team, working on some of the most challenging problems in the world. Your work will be difficult and rewarding, operating alongside teams working on laser physics, hardware, software, integration, testing, and deployment.

Every team member’s input matters.

Every delivery helps save lives.

The role

We are hiring an Android Engineer to work on GUI and remote control integration for the world’s most advanced High Power Laser system. You will be building new ways of interacting with single and multi-agent systems. Working as part of a team to overcome some of the most challenging problems.

You should have around five years’ experience as a software engineer, with at least two years in Android development, preferably with Java.

This work is operator‑facing. You will care about how the system feels to use. You will spend time on the details that make the difference between something that works and something that is reliable under real conditions.

What you will do

• Build and maintain Java based Android software, both as a standalone app and as an integration.
• Deliver a high quality User eXperience. You should lose sleep over bad UX.
• Design and build intuitive experiences wherever possible.
• Work closely with the engineering teams responsible for the Fractl system to align user interaction with how the system is actually operated.  
• Improve maintainability and testability of the Android codebase over time.
• ·       Implement Robust State and Connectivity Handling

What we are looking for

• ~5 years’ experience as a software engineer.
• At least 2 years of Android development experience.
• Professional experience building Android applications in Java.
• Strong attention to detail and a bias toward building a prototype fast, and then finishing work properly.
• Ability to work independently: research problems, propose solutions, implement, test, and iterate.
• Care for operator interaction quality across the whole system.

Useful experience (not required)

These are relevant to the existing remote terminal concept and controller approach:

• Working with real‑time inputs and state updates.  
• Messaging and integration patterns, such as MQTT, Kafka, etc.
• Handling video or streamed inputs
• Interfacing with external controllers / input devices

Security requirements

• Australian Citizenship.
• Ability to hold an NV1 security clearance.

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