Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Android Engineer role sits at the intersection of mobile product engineering and a large-scale, usage-driven SaaS application. Within the broader SaaS ecosystem, mobile is often the primary surface area where retention and engagement are won or lost, and the listing signals work tied directly to how ChatGPT is experienced on Android across multiple product domains.
For a SaaS career path, the appeal is the combination of feature delivery and platform stewardship. Establishing standards for performance, reliability, and code quality maps closely to the operational expectations of modern SaaS, where iteration speed must coexist with stability. The emphasis on shaping long-term architecture also translates well to other subscription products that rely on durable client platforms, instrumentation, and consistent UX patterns across releases.
This role is best suited to engineers who want to influence technical direction rather than focus solely on ticket execution. It should fit someone comfortable collaborating with product and design partners, making tradeoffs visible, and mentoring through code review and shared ownership. Candidates motivated by building consumer-grade experiences with strong engineering rigor will likely find the scope aligned with a long-term SaaS trajectory.
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Job Description
About the Team
The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by innovating across multiple core domains — from Growth and Personalization to Search Infrastructure and beyond. We’re scaling teams that build experiences, tools, and systems that power ChatGPT on every platform where users engage.
About the Role
We’re hiring an Android Software Engineer to lead development of new Android experiences for ChatGPT.
In this role, you will:
Design and develop new features and capabilities for ChatGPT’s Android app.
Establish strong engineering standards for performance, reliability, and code quality.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to craft experiences that resonate with users.
Shape technical decisions and define long-term architecture for mobile platforms.
Mentor and influence peers through code reviews and shared ownership.
You might thrive in this role if you:
You have strong expertise in Android (Kotlin/Java), modern architecture patterns, and Jetpack.
You’re passionate about mobile UX and system performance.
You enjoy working in dynamic, cross-functional environments.
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.
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