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Android Engineer, Growth

OpenAI is hiring an Android Engineer, Growth in San Francisco, United States. It pays $266k-$385k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on OpenAI.

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  • Pay on this posting starts 59% higher than the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • Some of the work can be done remotely, according to the posting.
  • The posting mentions AI research among its tools and skills.
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About the Team

The Growth team is responsible for helping millions of users discover the value of ChatGPT and seamlessly access our paid experiences. We build the mobile experiences that drive activation, conversion, and retention across our subscription products.

Our work sits at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and experimentation. We own critical user journeys including upgrade surfaces, purchase experiences, subscription management, and the end-to-end experiences that help users get the most value from ChatGPT.

As an Android Engineer on Growth, you'll help shape how users experience and engage with ChatGPT's paid offerings on one of our most important platforms.

About the Role

We're looking for an Android engineer who enjoys building polished consumer experiences and using data to improve them over time.

You'll develop the mobile surfaces that power subscription growth, including upsells, upgrade prompts, purchase flows, entitlement experiences, and other high-impact product initiatives. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and backend engineers to rapidly experiment, learn from user behavior, and deliver intuitive experiences to millions of users.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days per week in the office.

In this role, you will:

  • Build and ship high-quality Android features that improve activation, conversion, and retention for ChatGPT's paid offerings.

  • Own end-to-end development of growth initiatives, from technical design through launch and iteration.

  • Develop subscription experiences including paywalls, upgrade prompts, purchase flows, and entitlement management.

  • Partner closely with product, design, and data teams to define hypotheses, run experiments, and measure impact.

  • Use experimentation and user insights to continuously improve the paid user experience.

  • Contribute to the evolution of our Android architecture, tooling, testing practices, and engineering standards.

  • Help maintain a fast, reliable, and delightful mobile experience for millions of users.

You might Thrive in this role if

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful Android experience.

  • A track record of shipping and maintaining consumer-facing Android features at scale.

  • Proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

  • Experience integrating backend APIs and building robust client-side architectures.

  • Comfort operating in fast-moving, collaborative environments with product ambiguity.

  • Strong product quality, craftsmanship, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Experience using data and experimentation to inform decisions and iterate quickly.

  • Bonus: subscription or in-app purchase systems, growth engineering, A/B testing, Google Play Billing, entitlement management, Jetpack Compose, analytics instrumentation, or consumer products at large scale.

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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How we rate this

Android Engineer, Growth at OpenAI rates 18 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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