OpenAI · 12 hours ago
Android Engineer, Monetization
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Senior Android Engineer to build core mobile experiences that enhance user interactions with OpenAI's products, focusing on monetization and user trust.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SaaSAgentic AIFoundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Responsibilities
Build and ship monetization experiences on Android (e.g., plan selection, purchase flows, subscription management, entitlements, and policy-aware UX patterns)
Design and maintain shared Android frameworks and primitives for account, trust, and commerce flows used across OpenAI’s mobile apps (auth/session, entitlements, checkout abstractions, safety gates, etc.)
Own complex Android systems end-to-end across UI architecture, networking, local persistence/state, observability, and release processes
Build robust integrations with Android platform and ecosystem components (e.g., Google Play Billing, authentication, device security signals, deep links, push)
Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale (startup time, rendering, network resiliency, battery, crash-free sessions)
Establish and evolve testing and quality systems (unit/integration/UI tests, CI reliability, automated regression, release validation)
Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, backend, and Safety to deliver features that meet OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards across the Android foundations surface
Qualification
Required
4+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful Android ownership
A track record of building and shipping high-quality Android applications in production (especially for reliability- and trust-sensitive flows like identity and payments)
Fluency in Kotlin (and/or Java) and comfort with Android tooling and architecture (Gradle, Android Studio, modern app architecture patterns, Jetpack libraries)
Enjoy making pragmatic architectural tradeoffs while keeping systems maintainable, testable, and scalable
Care deeply about performance, security, privacy, and user experience, and bring a high bar for polish
Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Fidji Simo
CEO, Applications
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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