Android Engineer, Applied Foundations

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Applied AI

Senior Android Engineer on the Applied Foundations team at OpenAI, responsible for building and maintaining core mobile experiences for user sign-up, account management, family features, payments, and safety across OpenAI's apps. This role involves owning client-side systems, working cross-functionally, and ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and user trust.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will be a Senior Android engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building the core mobile experiences that power how users sign up, manage their account, family features, pay for services, stay safe, and interact with OpenAI’s products with confidence.
  2. This role is about creating high-quality products as well as reusable Android foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, and user trust.
  3. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payment integrations and Apple platform integrations, and work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale.

Skills

Required

  • Kotlin (and/or Java)
  • Android development tools and architecture components
  • performance
  • security
  • user experience

Nice to have

  • working cross-functionally

What the JD emphasized

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • proven track record of building high-quality Android applications in production