Android Engineer, Growth

OpenAI • San Francisco, CA

7d • $230,000 - $268,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• OpenAI is 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.
• 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.
• We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed