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Mobile AI Engineer - #35111

Manila Recruitment · Remote, Metro Manila, Philippines

Data Science / AI / Machine LearningRemoteQuick applyfull-time6 days ago

About The Role

Company Profile

Our client is a Philippine-headquartered company founded year 2022. with the mission to make booking easy and accessible for everyone. They aim to provide a seamless and user-friendly platform that connects people with the best accommodations, transportation, and experiences around the world. They strive to offer a personalized experience that caters to the unique needs and preferences of each individual. They believe in transparency, reliability, and exceptional customer service, and they are committed to creating a trustworthy community of travelers and providers. Ultimate goal is to inspire people to explore new places and create unforgettable memories.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Write features using Cursor/Copilot as a pair programmer — draft with AI, review every line, fix the edge cases
  • Ship to TestFlight and Play Console Internal Testing weekly
  • Review your own AI-generated code like you'd review someone else's: check for bugs, security issues, and mobile-specific problems (memory leaks, accessibility, offline handling)
  • Write automated tests for critical paths — XCTest for iOS, Espresso for Android
  • Handle app store submissions, staged rollouts, and hotfixes
  • Keep our CI green (GitHub Actions or Bitrise — your call)
  • Debug production crashes from Firebase Crashlytics
  • Tell us when AI tools are helping and when they're wasting your time
  • Telemetry & Observability
  • Integrate & Optimize Agentic Workflows
  • Maintain the Prompt & Agent Infrastructure
  • Expose App Features to OS Agents
  • Structured Data for Multimodal AI - Implement semantic layout structures and clean metadata schemas

30 / 60 / 90 days

  • 30: Ship first feature end-to-end. Set up your dev environment and our CI pipeline. Get to know the founder in weekly office days. Document your prompt patterns so the next hire can learn from them.
  • 60: Own the release cycle. Ship bi-weekly. Set up automated tests for critical paths. First security review of our codebase.
  • 90: Operating independently. Shipping weekly. You've told us which AI tools are worth paying for and which aren't. First architecture decision documented. You've helped us figure out our office day rhythm.
  • What good looks like
  • Ships features
  • 1-2 per month (meaningful, not trivial) (measured: Project tracker)

Zero critical bugs in production

  • From AI-generated code (measured: Post-mortem review)

Requirements

  • Shipped at least 5 production mobile apps (iOS and/or Android). (Publishes projects year 2024 onwards)
  • Strong Swift/SwiftUI OR Kotlin/Jetpack Compose — both is ideal.
  • Used Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code daily for 6+ months.
  • Can show us your prompt library or explain how you review AI output.
  • Security awareness — you know what hardcoded secrets look like and you've caught real bugs in code you didn't write
  • Self-directed — in a 2-person team, there's no one looking over your shoulder.
  • State Management & Local Storage
  • AI Tooling Reality Check - this will check if they use frontier AI coding agents and if they have experience in running Local LLM
  • Advanced AI Tooling & Orchestration
  • Understanding of LLM Mechanics
  • On-Device LLM & Edge Deployment
  • o Edge AI & Quantization - Experience deploying and optimizing small language models (SLMs) on-device
  • o Performance & Resource Management - Deep understanding of mobile hardware constraints

Advantageous Skills

  • Both iOS AND Android experience.
  • Flutter or React Native background with willingness to go native.
  • Built apps with real-time features (WebSockets, SSE).
  • Experience with on-device ML (CoreML, TensorFlow Lite).
  • Open source contributions or a technical blog.
  • AI Agent: Open Claw, Hermes Agent
  • Bachelor’s Degree
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