USD per year
Android Engineer, Applied Foundations
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Compensation
- $230K – $385K • Offers Equity
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, 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 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 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
This role is at-will; OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from identity & access, to safety to payments & commerce across all apps. Teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale.
About the Role
You will be a Senior Android engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building 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 confidently. This role involves creating high-quality products as well as reusable Android foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting high standards for security, reliability, and user trust. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payment integrations and Apple platform integrations. You will work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape architecture supporting OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Have a proven track record of building high-quality Android applications in production.
- Are fluent in Kotlin (and/or Java) and familiar with Android development tools and architecture components.
- Prioritize performance, security, and user experience in mobile development.
- Enjoy working cross-functionally to bring ambitious product ideas to life.
- Care deeply about performance, security, and user experience.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all humanity. They push boundaries of AI capabilities safely through products designed with safety and human needs at their core. OpenAI values diverse perspectives forming the full spectrum of humanity. They are an equal opportunity employer without discrimination based on race or other legally protected characteristics. Background checks are administered according to applicable laws including San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance etc., with specific job duties requiring access to secure IT systems. OpenAI commits to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request.