Android Engineer, Monetization

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About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers and businesses.

This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring research breakthroughs into real-world systems at global scale.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer on OpenAI’s Applied team to build the core mobile experiences that power how users sign up, manage their account, use family features, pay for services, stay safe, and interact with OpenAI’s products with confidence.

This role is about building high-quality products and reusable Android foundations that product teams across OpenAI apps depend on to ship quickly while meeting the highest standards for security, reliability, privacy, and user trust. You’ll own complex client-side systems spanning UI, networking, local state, payments, and Android platform integrations, and you’ll work closely with backend, product, and safety partners to shape the architecture that supports OpenAI’s mobile ecosystem at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship monetization experiences on Android (e.g., plan selection, purchase flows, subscription management, entitlements, and policy-aware UX patterns).
• Design and maintain shared Android frameworks and primitives for account, trust, and commerce flows used across OpenAI’s mobile apps (auth/session, entitlements, checkout abstractions, safety gates, etc.).
• Own complex Android systems end-to-end across UI architecture, networking, local persistence/state, observability, and release processes.
• Build robust integrations with Android platform and ecosystem components (e.g., Google Play Billing, authentication, device security signals, deep links, push).
• Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale (startup time, rendering, network resiliency, battery, crash-free sessions).
• Establish and evolve testing and quality systems (unit/integration/UI tests, CI reliability, automated regression, release validation).
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, backend, and Safety to deliver features 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 the Android foundations surface.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful Android ownership.
• Track record of building and shipping high-quality Android applications in production (especially for reliability- and trust-sensitive flows like identity and payments).
• Fluency in Kotlin and comfort with Android tooling and architecture (Gradle, Android Studio, modern app architecture patterns, Jetpack Compose).
• Ability to make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs while keeping systems maintainable, testable, and scalable.
• Strong focus on performance, security, privacy, and user experience with a high bar for polish.
• Comfortable in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.

Benefits

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to the salary range listed, total compensation includes equity, possible performance-related bonus(es), 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 company office closures, plus paid sick or safe time as required by law.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits (charitable donation matching, wellness stipends, etc.).

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 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 (https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf).

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