iOS Engineer, Applied FoundationsActive$230K–$385K

The opportunity

OpenAI’s Applications Engineering organization builds and operates the products that bring our cutting-edge research to millions of users and developers worldwide. The Applied Foundations team owns the core product and platform layers that make those experiences possible — from…

What you'll do

  • Build and ship new experiences on iOS that showcase the power of AI.

  • Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale.

  • Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks and primitives for account, trust,: and commerce flows that are used across OpenAI’s mobile apps.

  • Establish robust testing frameworks and refine app architecture for long-term maintainability.

  • Collaborate with product, design, research, and backend teams to deliver high-impact features.

  • Provide technical leadership to shape the future of OpenAI’s iOS platform.

What they're looking for

  • Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Have a proven track record of building high-quality iOS applications in: production, especially for systems that need to be reliable and resilient at scale.
  • Have owned complex, business-critical mobile systems end-to-end.
  • Have experience making deep architectural tradeoffs on iOS.