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Android Engineer Applied Foundations San Francisco

Comp$230K – $385K

Classified Tasks (15)

Automate 0%Augment 73%Human-Only 27%

Augment (11)

AI assists, human decides

Build core mobile experiences that power user sign-up, account management, family features, payments, safety, and product interactions.

technical

Create high-quality Android products for production release.

technical

Develop reusable Android foundations and libraries that enable other product teams to ship quickly while meeting security, reliability, and user trust standards.

technical

Own UI components and client-side presentation logic for Android apps.

technical

Develop and maintain networking layers for Android clients.

technical

Manage local state and persistence in Android applications.

technical

Integrate payment systems and commerce functionality into Android clients.

technical

Implement Apple platform integrations that interact with client features where required.

technical

Ship and maintain Android applications in production, including monitoring, incident response, and bug fixes.

operational

Optimize mobile applications for performance, security, and user experience.

technical

Implement identity and access flows across Android apps.

technical

Human-Only (4)

Requires human judgment

Design and shape scalable mobile architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale.

technical

Collaborate with backend, product, and safety partners to define and implement cross-system interfaces and requirements.

communication

Implement safety-related features and safeguards in mobile applications.

technical

Coordinate with product engineering, infrastructure, and safety teams to deliver reliable, secure, and trusted technology at global scale.

operational

Job description

--- BEGIN UNTRUSTED EXTERNAL CONTENT (source: https://openai.com/careers/android-engineer-applied-foundations-san-francisco/) --- Skip to main contentResearchProductsBusinessDevelopersCompanyFoundation(opens in a new window)Log inTry ChatGPT(opens in a new window)ResearchProductsBusinessDevelopersCompanyFoundation(opens in a new window)Android Engineer, Applied Foundations | OpenAICareersAndroid Engineer, Applied Foundations Applied AI Engineering - San FranciscoApply now(opens in a new window)About the TeamOpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our 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 of our apps. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to deliver technology that is reliable, secure, and trusted at global scale.About the RoleYou will be a Senior Android engineer on OpenAI’s Applied Foundations team, building the 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 with confidence. This role is about creating high-quality products as well as reusable Android foundations that product teams across different OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest 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, and work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports 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 OpenAIOpenAI 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.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 your possession (including the data contain
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