Android Engineer, ChatGPT Mobile Infrastructure

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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in y