Senior Android Engineer, ChatGPT Core Experiences

About The Team

The ChatGPT Core Experiences team at OpenAI is dedicated to innovating and evolving the core UX design, technical architecture, and essential features of the Web, iOS, and Android ChatGPT client experiences. Our focus is on horizontal improvements that empower vertical product development across the organization, enabling the launch of industry-leading feature capabilities.

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead the development of new features and foundational architectural improvements across the ChatGPT Android client. In this role, you will:

• Build and ship new features that push the boundaries of research and product innovation, bringing delightful and impactful AI experiences to Android users.
• Plan and implement foundational client architecture improvements, focusing on optimizing performance, reliability, and scalability for the Android platform.
• Drive client-side GraphQL migrations, collaborating with backend teams to adopt and integrate GraphQL, improving data fetching efficiency and developer productivity.
• Optimize Android platform infrastructure to support development, testing, and deployment of these product and architectural improvements.
• Work closely with research, product, design, and data science teams to ensure alignment and success in shipping innovative AI-driven features for Android.

How We Work

Our team prioritizes quality by focusing on latency, performance, reliability, and user delight. We take an impact-driven approach, focusing on the highest-ROI efforts that unlock velocity and leverage for vertical product teams. We emphasize developer enablement through improved tooling, infrastructure, and testing processes to ensure smooth and efficient product development.

We value a pragmatic approach, ensuring that we neither overbuild nor underbuild, always striking the right balance to deliver impactful solutions. We act as the glue that connects teams across the ChatGPT organization, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and cohesion for all client applications.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

• Have a strong track record of building impactful Android features and delivering high-quality mobile applications.
• Have experience migrating to or using GraphQL for efficient data fetching, and collaborating with backend teams to drive this adoption.
• Enjoy solving complex architectural challenges to optimize performance, scalability, and developer productivity on Android.
• Value developer enablement, making it easier for other teams to deploy, test, and scale their work within the Android ecosystem.
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and rapidly changing requirements, and enjoy working cross-functionally to ship meaningful AI-powered experiences.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.