Mobile Engineer (Contractor) - Palo Alto

The role

You will design and develop core features of the Plaud App. You will build and optimize software-hardware connectivity and data transmission flows between mobile applications and physical devices.

What you will do

• Design and develop core features of the Plaud App.
• Build, maintain, and optimize software–hardware connectivity and data transmission flows.
• Implement and optimize data interactions across the mobile app, hardware devices, firmware, and backend systems.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, backend, product, and design teams.
• Contribute to technical design, code quality, and long-term maintainability of the codebase.

Required qualifications

• Solid experience in mobile application development.
• Strong coding fundamentals and system design capabilities.
• Strong background in mobile app development on iOS, Android, or Flutter-based cross-platform solutions.
• Deep understanding of platform-specific constraints and best practices.
• Proven experience building and maintaining software–hardware connectivity and data interaction layers, such as BLE, Wi-Fi, and custom device communication protocols.
• Strong ability to debug, optimize, and maintain complex, multi-component systems spanning mobile apps, devices, firmware, and backend services.
• Highly collaborative mindset with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of features.
• Proactive approach to embracing and applying AI technologies and AI-assisted tools.

About the company

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance. Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company.