Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform
San Francisco · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
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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About the role
- We're looking for an experienced Android engineer to bring plugins, connectors, and interactive apps to life on mobile.
- You'll build the Android experiences and platform foundations that help developers extend ChatGPT and help users discover and use those capabilities from their devices.
- You'll work across native Android interfaces, developer-facing APIs, and the systems that support extensibility on mobile.
Responsibilities
- Build Android experiences for plugins, connectors, and interactive apps within ChatGPT.
- Develop reusable Android components and interfaces that support a growing ecosystem of developer-built experiences.
- Partner with platform engineers to connect native mobile experiences with APIs, SDKs, and backend systems.
- Work with developers and partners to identify integration challenges and improve the experience of building for mobile.
- Improve app performance, reliability, architecture, testing, and developer tooling.
- Own projects from initial requirements through release, measurement, and iteration.
Workplace
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
Skills
- Android
- Kotlin
