Android Engineer, Ad Formats

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and ship ads format experiences on Android: 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: UI architecture, networking, local persistence/state, observability, rendering performance, release processes
• ▹Build robust integrations with Android platform and ecosystem components (media playback, deep links, device capabilities, app lifecycle)
• ▹Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale (rendering quality, scrolling performance, startup time, media load latency, network resiliency, battery usage, crash-free sessions)
• ▹Establish and evolve testing and quality systems (unit, integration, UI, screenshot, automated regression, release validation)
• ▹Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, backend, and Safety to meet OpenAI's standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance
• ▹Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful Android ownership
• ▹Track record shipping high-quality Android applications in production, especially for user-facing, performance-sensitive, or trust-sensitive flows
• ▹Fluency in Kotlin and Android tooling/architecture, including Gradle, Android Studio, modern app architecture patterns, and Jetpack Compose
• ▹Experience building polished mobile UI systems, media-rich experiences, rendering frameworks, design systems, or reusable product infrastructure
• ▹Pragmatic architectural trade-offs while keeping systems maintainable, testable, and scalable
• ▹Deep care for performance, reliability, privacy, and user experience

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with ads formats, creative rendering systems, media delivery, native ads, conversational products, mobile monetization, or large-scale consumer mobile applications

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Relocation assistance for new employees

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity, placing safety and human needs at the core of its work while attracting top talent in science, engineering, and business. This role is exclusively based in the San Francisco HQ.