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    "description": "<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Position Summary</span></strong></p>\n\n<div style=\"margin-top:8px; text-align:center; text-indent:-.1pt\">\n<hr /></div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Teal Drones is looking for a hands-on Android Engineer (C++/NDK) to own and evolve the Android-based ground control station experience for our drone platforms. This role focuses on building, debugging, and optimizing native C++ systems on Android for mission planning, telemetry, and real-time vehicle control. </span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">You will work inside a QGroundControl (QGC/Qt) environment, but we are hiring first for strong C++ engineering depth. If you are excellent in C++ and Android native development, we expect you can ramp quickly on QGC/Qt specifics. </span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">The questions you&rsquo;ll be asked every day are ones like: Why is MAVLink telemetry dropping under load on this Android device? How do we improve reliability and latency across UDP/TCP/USB/Serial paths? What&rsquo;s the fastest way to debug native threading, memory, and performance issues on ARM64 Android in field conditions? </span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">We are looking for someone comfortable across Android internals, C++/NDK, networking, hardware interfaces, and real-time systems. 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text-indent:0in\">\n<hr /></div>\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Required Qualifications</span></strong></p>\n\n<div style=\"margin-top:8px; text-align:center; text-indent:-.1pt\">\n<hr /></div>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Bachelor&rsquo;s or master&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in modern C++. </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Hands-on experience building and debugging native code on Android (NDK, JNI, profiling, debugging). </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Strong multithreading/concurrency fundamentals and experience with performance-sensitive systems. </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Experience with networking in mobile or embedded systems (UDP/TCP/serial/USB). </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Strong debugging skills across multi-layer systems (native code, app layer, networking, OS). </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Comfortable working in Linux-based development environments. </span></span></li>\n\t<li><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Experience with Qt/QML, QGroundControl, MAVLink, PX4, or ArduPilot is a plus, and can be learned on the job with strong C++ fundamentals. </span></span></li>\n</ul>\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center; 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Qualified candidates with a criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal and state law.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">EEO and ITAR/EAR Work Authorization Disclosure</span></strong></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">Red Cat Holdings provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software, technology or technical data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). 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