Senior Android Engineer, ChatGPT Core Experiences

About the Team

The ChatGPT Core Experiences team supports the OpenAI mission by innovating and evolving the Core UX design, technical architecture, and essential features of the Web, iOS, and Android ChatGPT client experiences.

We focus on horizontal improvements that strategically empower vertical product development across our organization, enabling the launch of industry-leading feature capabilities.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior Android engineer to lead the development of new features and client 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.

In this role, you will :

Build and ship new experiences that push the boundaries of research and product innovation to create a useful, delightful AI assistant in every user’s pocket

Plan and deploy mobile platform infrastructure necessary to build, test, and deploy these product experiences.

Execute on projects by working closely with research, product, design, data science and other members of product teams to land impact on product goals

Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group-think.

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.