Android Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform

About the Team

The Plugin Developer Platform team builds the APIs SDKs and tools that let people extend ChatGPT and Codex. We work on plugins connectors the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and interactive apps.

We want anyone to be able to turn a useful workflow into a plugin share it and have other people use it. A plugin can package instructions and skills with connections to the tools and data it needs. Our work covers plugin creation and publishing the systems that run plugins across our products and open standards that developers can build on.

About the Role

Were looking for an experienced Android engineer to bring plugins connectors and interactive apps to life on mobile. Youll build the Android experiences and platform foundations that help developers extend ChatGPT and help users discover and use those capabilities from their devices.

Youll work across native Android interfaces developer-facing APIs and the systems that support extensibility on mobile. Youll collaborate closely with product design and platform engineers owning features from early exploration through implementation launch and iteration.

Youll also engage directly with developers and partners to understand how their workflows translate to Android. Their experience will inform the interfaces and abstractions you build the problems you prioritize and the tradeoffs you make.

This role is based in San Francisco. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Build Android experiences for plugins connectors and interactive apps within ChatGPT.

• Develop reusable Android components and interfaces that support a growing ecosystem of developer-built experiences.

• Partner with platform engineers to connect native mobile experiences with APIs SDKs and backend systems.

• Work with developers and partners to identify integration challenges and improve the experience of building for mobile.

• Improve app performance reliability architecture testing and developer tooling.

• Own projects from initial requirements through release measurement and iteration.
  

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep experience building Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks.

• Have shipped consumer-facing mobile products at scale and care deeply about performance quality and user experience.

• Bring a platform mindset and enjoy designing reusable interfaces and abstractions that other developers build on.

• Enjoy collaborating across engineering product and design and working directly with developers and partners.

• Are excited about bringing AI-powered tools and extensible experiences to mobile.

• Thrive in fast-moving environments where you help define both product and technical direction.

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.

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