About the Team
OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. We power products such as ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and emerging AI-native applications. Our teams span product engineering, infrastructure, and safety, working together to ensure that OpenAI’s technology is delivered with reliability, security, and a world-class user experience.
About the Role
We’re seeking iOS engineers to craft and evolve the ChatGPT iOS app and future AI-powered mobile experiences. You’ll build new features, optimize performance, and integrate the latest Apple platform capabilities to deliver a seamless, delightful assistant in every user’s pocket.
In this role, you will:
Build and ship new experiences on iOS that showcase the power of AI.
Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale.
Establish robust testing frameworks and refine app architecture for long-term maintainability.
Collaborate with product, design, research, and backend teams to deliver high-impact features.
Provide technical leadership to shape the future of OpenAI’s iOS platform.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have up to 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
Have a proven track record of building high-quality iOS applications in production.
Are fluent in Swift and familiar with the Apple development ecosystem (Xcode, UIKit/SwiftUI).
Prioritize performance, security, and user experience in mobile development.
Enjoy working cross-functionally to bring ambitious product ideas to life.
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.
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