OpenAI

Android Engineer, Growth

OpenAI$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on Android development.
  • Proven experience shipping consumer-facing Android features at scale.
  • Strong proficiency in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
  • Experience with backend API integration and client-side architecture.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced and collaborative environments with product ambiguity.
  • Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
  • Familiarity with data-driven decision-making and rapid experimentation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship high-quality Android features that enhance activation, conversion, and retention.
  • Own the full development cycle of growth initiatives, from design to launch and iteration.
  • Develop subscription-related experiences, including paywalls and purchase flows.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to define hypotheses and execute experiments.
  • Utilize user insights and experimentation to refine the paid user experience over time.
  • Contribute to advancing Android architecture, tooling, and testing practices.
  • Ensure a fast, reliable, and enjoyable mobile experience for a large user base.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with three days in the office per week.
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact product initiatives that affect millions of users.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Potential for professional growth and skill development in mobile engineering.
Full Job Description
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.


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

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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2015

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