Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

Applied AI Engineering - San Francisco

About the Team

The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs, SDKs, and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins, connectors, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and interactive apps.

We want anyone to be able to turn a useful workflow into a plugin, share it, and have other people use it. A plugin can package instructions and skills with connections to the tools and data it needs. Our work covers plugin creation and publishing, the systems that run plugins across our products, and open standards that developers can build on.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Android engineer to bring plugins foundations that help developers extend ChatGPT and help users discover and use those capabilities from their devices.

You’ll work across native Android interfaces engineers, owning features from early exploration through implementation, launch, and iteration.

You’ll also engage directly with developers and partners to understand how their workflows translate to Android. Their experience will inform the interfaces and abstractions you build, the problems you prioritize, and the tradeoffs you make.

This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• 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.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep experience building Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks.
• Have shipped consumer-facing mobile products at scale and care deeply about performance, quality, and user experience.
• Bring a platform mindset and enjoy designing reusable interfaces and abstractions that other developers build on.
• Enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and design, and working directly with developers and partners.
• Are excited about bringing AI-powered tools and extensible experiences to mobile.
• Thrive in fast-moving environments where you help define both product and technical direction.

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 the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

Compensation

$185K – $385K + Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.