Location

San Francisco; New York City; Seattle

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Applied AI

Compensation

• $185K – $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

We’re building the core Kotlin-based platform—from architecture to CI—that powers ChatGPT, Sora, and other fast-evolving Android apps. Android is a key platform for ChatGPT, and our focus is helping teams iterate quickly without sacrificing performance or reliability.

About the Role

We’re hiring Staff+ engineers with backgrounds across the Android platform, including specialists in performance, build/CI, or AI developer productivity. Whether you focus on UI frameworks or automated testing, your impact will be seen in reduced friction, lower complexity, fewer regressions, and improved performance.

If you're rethinking how to scale Android development in the era of advanced AI tools, this role is for you.

We are hiring in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, and may consider remote candidates.

In this role, you may:

• Build and evolve core Kotlin frameworks used across multiple apps and platforms (e.g., caching, state management, observability, navigation, component systems).

• Enhance app performance (startup, responsiveness, memory, battery life) through profiling, monitoring, regression prevention, or architectural improvements.

• Increase reliability by reducing crashes, improving error handling, and driving release process improvements.

• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to identify pain points and emerging infrastructure needs.

• Develop internal tooling and automation (CI, testing, guardrails, Codex agent skills, and systems) to accelerate engineering velocity.

• Turn real-world constraints into simple abstractions: intuitive APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring strong expertise in Android development (Kotlin, modern architecture patterns, Jetpack).

• Gravitate toward platform challenges: frameworks, architecture, performance, or creating tools that empower other engineers.

• Take ownership by identifying key risks/opportunities, driving projects to completion, and adapting quickly.

• Care about measurement: instrument thoroughly, define metrics, run experiments, and iterate based on data.

• Communicate and collaborate effectively—aligning on interfaces, navigating tradeoffs, and driving cross-team execution.

• Think in systems, fight entropy, and enjoy ambiguous challenges.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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