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Android Engineer, Ad Formats

OpenAI· Applied AI
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$230k - $385k + bonusFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Android Engineer focusing on the Ads Formats within OpenAI’s monetization ecosystem, building native Android experiences and client-side systems to power ad rendering, delivery, and formats across OpenAI surfaces, including text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ads.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship ads format experiences on Android, including text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ad surfaces.
  • Design and maintain shared Android frameworks and primitives for ad rendering, creative presentation, media handling, format validation, and policy-aware UX patterns.
  • Own complex Android systems end-to-end across UI architecture, networking, local persistence/state, observability, rendering performance, and release processes.
  • Build robust integrations with Android platform and ecosystem components, including media playback, deep links, device capabilities, and app lifecycle behavior.
  • Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale, including rendering quality, scrolling performance, startup time, media load latency, network resiliency, battery usage, and crash-free sessions.
  • Establish and evolve testing and quality systems, including unit, integration, UI, screenshot, automated regression, and release validation workflows.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, backend, and Safety to deliver ads experiences that meet OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards across Android ads formats and monetization surfaces.

Qualifications

  • Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful Android ownership.
  • Have a track record of building and shipping high-quality Android applications in production, especially for user-facing, performance-sensitive, or trust-sensitive flows.
  • Are fluent in Kotlin and comfortable with Android tooling and architecture, including Gradle, Android Studio, modern app architecture patterns, and Jetpack Compose.
  • Have experience building polished mobile UI systems, media-rich experiences, rendering frameworks, design systems, or reusable product infrastructure.
  • Enjoy making pragmatic architectural tradeoffs while keeping systems maintainable, testable, and scalable.
  • Care deeply about performance, reliability, privacy, and user experience, and you bring a high bar for polish.
  • Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.
  • Bonus: Have experience with ads formats, creative rendering systems, media delivery, native ads, conversational products, mobile monetization, or large-scale consumer mobile applications.

Skills

Required:Android development (Kotlin)UI / rendering systemsPerformance optimization

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.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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