iOS Engineer, Monetization · OpenAI

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:29:10 GMT
Engineering

OpenAI · Seattle; San Francisco · $325K – $385K · hybrid

Location

Seattle; San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

$325K – $385K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

401(k) retirement plan with employer match

Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

Mental health and wellness support

Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

Relocation support for eligible employees

Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses.

This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior iOS Engineer to build the core mobile monetization experiences and iOS foundations that power how users sign up, manage their account, access family features, pay for services, and interact with monetized experiences safely and confidently across OpenAI’s mobile apps.

This is a 0→1, greenfield opportunity: you’ll help define the architecture, primitives, and reusable frameworks that product teams depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, privacy, and user trust. You’ll partner closely with backend, product, design, safety, and research to translate evolving requirements into high-quality iOS systems and experiences.

In this role, you will:

Build and ship new monetization experiences on iOS, including purchase flows, subscription/plan management, and monetization-adjacent surfaces that showcase the power of AI.

Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks and primitives for account, trust, and commerce flows used across OpenAI’s mobile apps (e.g., identity, entitlements, payments, policy-aware UX).

Own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, observability, and Apple platform integrations (StoreKit, Sign in with Apple, device security primitives, etc.).

Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness for global-scale usage, including robust offline/poor-network handling and safe rollout strategies.

Establish and evolve testing frameworks (unit, integration, snapshot/UI, and end-to-end) and refine architecture for long-term maintainability.

Collaborate deeply with Product, Design, Research, and backend teams to translate ambiguous goals into durable systems and delightful experiences.

Help uphold the highest levels of safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance across monetization experiences.

Provide technical leadership through architectural reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards across iOS monetization foundations.

You might thrive in this role if you

Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant iOS ownership.

Have a proven track record shipping high-quality iOS apps in production for business-critical, reliability-sensitive systems.

Are fluent in Swift and experienced with Apple’s ecosystem (Xcode, SwiftUI).

Have owned complex mobile systems end-to-end (architecture, delivery, instrumentation, quality, and operations).

Care deeply about performance, security, privacy, and user experience, especially in flows involving identity and payments.

Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.