Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of consumer-grade product delivery and platform-scale AI capabilities. Building on iOS for ChatGPT implies working on a subscription-style, continuously evolving application where release cadence, reliability, and user experience directly shape retention and engagement. It also signals proximity to a broader product surface that spans growth, personalization, and search infrastructure, which are common levers in modern SaaS.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work maps well to the skills that compound across products: owning features end to end, instrumenting and improving performance, and making architectural decisions that hold up as usage grows. The emphasis on test coverage, tooling, and reliability is especially transferable to other SaaS environments where mobile is a primary channel and quality is measured over many iterations rather than one-off launches.
This is best suited to engineers who like product-facing ownership and are comfortable collaborating across product, design, and research to turn ambiguous problems into shippable software. It will appeal to professionals who enjoy balancing craft in client development with the realities of integrating complex backend and AI systems in a production SaaS setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by innovating across multiple core domains that shape how millions of people experience advanced AI. We are growing cross-functionally and hiring engineers across teams including Growth, Ecosystems, Personalization, Search Infrastructure, and more — all contributing to the next generation of AI-driven products and platforms.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced iOS Software Engineer to build and improve the ChatGPT iOS app. In this role, you will:
In this role, you will:
Build and ship new iOS features that expand the boundaries of AI-powered mobile applications.
Drive improvements in app performance, architecture, test coverage, tooling, and reliability.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, and other Engineering teams to enhance user delight.
Own components end-to-end — design, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration.
Integrate with backend and AI systems to deliver seamless mobile experiences.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have deep experience in iOS development (Swift/Objective-C), including frameworks like UIKit/SwiftUI, Core Data, and performance optimization.
Are passionate about creating intuitive, performant, and delightful mobile experiences.
Enjoy collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams and iterating rapidly.
We are open to hiring in San Fransisco, New York and Seattle
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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