diff --git a/extension/android/CMakeLists.txt b/extension/android/CMakeLists.txt
index c94b95286d0..f1073fe7a0c 100644
--- a/extension/android/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/extension/android/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -115,25 +115,83 @@ if(TARGET qnn_executorch_backend)
   list(APPEND link_libraries qnn_executorch_backend)
 endif()
 
+# EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED /
+# EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED emit a backend as its own .so so a
+# consumer can drop the ones it does not use. A split backend still links
+# executorch_core statically, so it carries a second copy of the backend
+# registry (registered_backends[] in runtime/backend/interface.cpp).
+# Registration reaches the runtime's copy only through PLT interposition: the
+# register_backend call in the backend .so is a JUMP_SLOT relocation, so the
+# dynamic linker binds it to the first definition in the global lookup scope.
+# Two things have to hold for that to be this library's copy:
+#
+# * libexecutorch_jni.so has to export register_backend. The default version
+#   script hides everything but JNI_OnLoad/Java_*, so jni/version_script.txt is
+#   swapped for jni/version_script_shared_backends.txt below whenever a backend
+#   is split out.
+# * The consumer has to load libexecutorch_jni.so ahead of the backend .so in
+#   the same lookup scope. Naming both in the link line of the library that uses
+#   them, runtime first, does that: the runtime lands earlier in DT_NEEDED and
+#   wins the lookup. dlopen()ing a backend .so on its own does not, and the
+#   backend then registers into its own table while the runtime reports
+#   DelegateNotFound.
+#
+# The same interposition is what keeps a split XNNPACK on one thread pool: the
+# pthreadpool symbols are exported from here too, so the backend .so binds to
+# the pool extension_threadpool configures instead of a second, unconfigured
+# copy of its own.
 if(TARGET xnnpack_backend)
-  executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(xnnpack_backend)
-  list(
-    APPEND
-    link_libraries
-    xnnpack_backend
-    XNNPACK
-    pthreadpool
-    cpuinfo
-    xnnpack-microkernels-prod
+  set(_xnnpack_so_link_libs xnnpack_backend XNNPACK pthreadpool cpuinfo
+                            xnnpack-microkernels-prod
   )
   if(TARGET kleidiai)
-    list(APPEND link_libraries kleidiai)
+    list(APPEND _xnnpack_so_link_libs kleidiai)
+  endif()
+
+  if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED)
+    # Whole-archive the backend so its register_backend static initializer
+    # fires, and take only the XNNPACK third-party libs with it. The kernel
+    # registration archives stay in libexecutorch_jni.so, so loading both
+    # libraries together does not register a kernel twice
+    # (Error::RegistrationAlreadyRegistered, 0x16).
+    add_library(
+      xnnpack_executorch_backend SHARED
+      ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/extension/android/jni/jni_noop.cpp
+    )
+    executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(xnnpack_backend)
+    target_link_options_gc_sections(xnnpack_executorch_backend)
+    target_link_libraries(
+      xnnpack_executorch_backend PRIVATE ${_xnnpack_so_link_libs}
+                                         executorch_core log
+    )
+    # executorch_jni still needs cpuinfo headers / lib for thread count
+    # detection.
+    list(APPEND link_libraries cpuinfo)
+  else()
+    executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(xnnpack_backend)
+    list(APPEND link_libraries ${_xnnpack_so_link_libs})
   endif()
 endif()
 
 if(TARGET vulkan_backend)
-  executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(vulkan_backend)
-  list(APPEND link_libraries vulkan_backend)
+  if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED)
+    # Same shape as the XNNPACK split above: whole-archive vulkan_backend and
+    # take only vulkan_schema with it, leaving the kernel registration archives
+    # in libexecutorch_jni.so.
+    add_library(
+      vulkan_executorch_backend SHARED
+      ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/extension/android/jni/jni_noop.cpp
+    )
+    executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(vulkan_backend)
+    target_link_options_gc_sections(vulkan_executorch_backend)
+    target_link_libraries(
+      vulkan_executorch_backend PRIVATE vulkan_backend vulkan_schema
+                                        executorch_core log
+    )
+  else()
+    executorch_target_link_options_shared_lib(vulkan_backend)
+    list(APPEND link_libraries vulkan_backend)
+  endif()
 endif()
 
 if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_KERNELS_LLM)
@@ -242,9 +300,21 @@ target_include_directories(
 
 target_compile_options(executorch_jni PUBLIC ${_common_compile_options})
 
+if(EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED
+   OR EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED
+)
+  set(_executorch_jni_version_script
+      "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/jni/version_script_shared_backends.txt"
+  )
+else()
+  set(_executorch_jni_version_script
+      "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/jni/version_script.txt"
+  )
+endif()
+
 target_link_options(
   executorch_jni PRIVATE
-  "LINKER:--version-script,${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/jni/version_script.txt"
+  "LINKER:--version-script,${_executorch_jni_version_script}"
 )
 target_link_options_gc_sections(executorch_jni)
 
diff --git a/extension/android/jni/jni_noop.cpp b/extension/android/jni/jni_noop.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b5b7cf76388
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extension/android/jni/jni_noop.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+// Empty translation unit so SHARED libraries that only need to whole-archive
+// other static archives (e.g. libvulkan_executorch_backend.so) have at least
+// one source file for CMake to invoke the linker on.
diff --git a/extension/android/jni/version_script_shared_backends.txt b/extension/android/jni/version_script_shared_backends.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7deb0ca8006
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extension/android/jni/version_script_shared_backends.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  global:
+    JNI_OnLoad;
+    Java_*;
+    # A backend built as its own .so (EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED /
+    # EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED) carries its own statically linked
+    # copy of executorch_core, and therefore its own backend registry. Its call
+    # to register_backend goes through the PLT, so exporting the registry entry
+    # points here lets the dynamic linker bind that call to this library's
+    # registry - the one the runtime actually reads from.
+    extern "C++" {
+      executorch::runtime*::register_backend*;
+      executorch::runtime*::get_backend_class*;
+      executorch::runtime*::get_backend_name*;
+      executorch::runtime*::get_num_registered_backends*;
+    };
+    # Same reason, for the thread pool the split XNNPACK backend runs on: bind
+    # its pthreadpool calls to the pool extension_threadpool configures here
+    # rather than to a second, unconfigured copy inside the backend .so.
+    pthreadpool_*;
+  local:
+    *;
+};
diff --git a/extension/llm/custom_ops/CMakeLists.txt b/extension/llm/custom_ops/CMakeLists.txt
index 8a43a5ddf5c..4d3050dc919 100644
--- a/extension/llm/custom_ops/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/extension/llm/custom_ops/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ endif()
 
 list(TRANSFORM _custom_ops__srcs PREPEND "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/")
 
-if(NOT EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK)
+if(NOT EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK OR EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED)
+  # custom_ops doesn't actually call into xnnpack_backend (no XNNPACK refs in
+  # its sources). The transitive PUBLIC link is what was previously dragging
+  # XNNCompiler/XNNExecutor into libexecutorch_jni.so via the WHOLE_ARCHIVE on
+  # custom_ops, which defeats EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED. Drop it.
   list(APPEND custom_ops_libs extension_threadpool)
 else()
   list(APPEND custom_ops_libs extension_threadpool xnnpack_backend)
diff --git a/scripts/build_android_library.sh b/scripts/build_android_library.sh
index 5363c64b87c..02e7e3b8403 100755
--- a/scripts/build_android_library.sh
+++ b/scripts/build_android_library.sh
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ build_android_native_library() {
   fi
 
   EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN:-OFF}"
+  EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED:-OFF}"
+  EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED:-OFF}"
   XNNPACK_ENABLE_ARM_SME2="${XNNPACK_ENABLE_ARM_SME2:-ON}"
 
   cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="${CMAKE_OUT}" \
@@ -52,6 +54,8 @@ build_android_native_library() {
     -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_QNN="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_QNN}" \
     -DQNN_SDK_ROOT="${QNN_SDK_ROOT}" \
     -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN}" \
+    -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED}" \
+    -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED="${EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED}" \
     -DXNNPACK_ENABLE_ARM_SME2="${XNNPACK_ENABLE_ARM_SME2}" \
     -DFLATCC_ALLOW_WERROR=OFF \
     -DSUPPORT_REGEX_LOOKAHEAD=ON \
@@ -68,7 +72,18 @@ build_android_native_library() {
   # Copy artifacts to ABI specific directory
   local SO_STAGE_DIR="cmake-out-android-so/${ANDROID_ABI}"
   mkdir -p ${SO_STAGE_DIR}
-  cp "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/*.so "${SO_STAGE_DIR}/libexecutorch.so"
+  cp "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/libexecutorch_jni.so "${SO_STAGE_DIR}/libexecutorch.so"
+
+  # Copy standalone Vulkan backend shared library if built. Used by React
+  # Native Executorch as an opt-in artifact when the app enables Vulkan.
+  if [ -f "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/libvulkan_executorch_backend.so ]; then
+    cp "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/libvulkan_executorch_backend.so "${SO_STAGE_DIR}/"
+  fi
+
+  # Same for XNNPACK as a standalone shared library.
+  if [ -f "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/libxnnpack_executorch_backend.so ]; then
+    cp "${CMAKE_OUT}"/extension/android/libxnnpack_executorch_backend.so "${SO_STAGE_DIR}/"
+  fi
 
   # Copy QNN related so library
   if [ -n "$QNN_SDK_ROOT" ] && [ "$ANDROID_ABI" == "arm64-v8a" ]; then
diff --git a/tools/cmake/preset/default.cmake b/tools/cmake/preset/default.cmake
index ae5437ea443..979c9d0c953 100644
--- a/tools/cmake/preset/default.cmake
+++ b/tools/cmake/preset/default.cmake
@@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ define_overridable_option(
 define_overridable_option(
   EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN "Build the Vulkan backend" BOOL OFF
 )
+define_overridable_option(
+  EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED
+  "Build the XNNPACK backend as its own shared library instead of linking it into the Android JNI library"
+  BOOL
+  OFF
+)
+define_overridable_option(
+  EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED
+  "Build the Vulkan backend as its own shared library instead of linking it into the Android JNI library"
+  BOOL
+  OFF
+)
 define_overridable_option(
   EXECUTORCH_BUILD_WEBGPU "Build the WebGPU backend" BOOL OFF
 )
@@ -357,6 +369,15 @@ check_required_options_on(
   IF_ON EXECUTORCH_BUILD_QNN REQUIRES EXECUTORCH_BUILD_EXTENSION_TENSOR
 )
 
+check_required_options_on(
+  IF_ON EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK_BACKEND_SHARED REQUIRES
+  EXECUTORCH_BUILD_XNNPACK
+)
+
+check_required_options_on(
+  IF_ON EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN_BACKEND_SHARED REQUIRES EXECUTORCH_BUILD_VULKAN
+)
+
 check_required_options_on(
   IF_ON EXECUTORCH_ENABLE_BUNDLE_IO REQUIRES EXECUTORCH_BUILD_DEVTOOLS
 )