Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

📋 Job Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Android engineer to bring plugins, connectors, and interactive apps to life on mobile. You’ll build the Android experiences and platform foundations that help developers extend ChatGPT and help users discover and use those capabilities from their devices. This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

You’ll work across native Android interfaces, developer-facing APIs, and the systems that support extensibility on mobile. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and platform engineers, owning features from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration. You’ll also engage directly with developers and partners to understand how their workflows translate to Android.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build Android experiences for plugins, connectors, and interactive apps within ChatGPT.
• Develop reusable Android components and interfaces that support a growing ecosystem of developer-built experiences.
• Partner with platform engineers to connect native mobile experiences with APIs, SDKs, and backend systems.
• Work with developers and partners to identify integration challenges and improve the experience of building for mobile.
• Improve app performance, reliability, architecture, testing, and developer tooling.
• Own projects from initial requirements through release, measurement, and iteration.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Have deep experience building Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks.
• Have shipped consumer-facing mobile products at scale and care deeply about performance, quality, and user experience.
• Bring a platform mindset and enjoy designing reusable interfaces and abstractions that other developers build on.
• Enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and design, and working directly with developers and partners.
• Are excited about bringing AI-powered tools and extensible experiences to mobile.
• Thrive in fast-moving environments where you help define both product and technical direction.

🎁 Benefits

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.