iOS Engineer, Applied Foundations
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build core iOS experiences for sign-up, account management, payments and safety, and create reusable iOS foundations used across OpenAI apps. You will own complex client-side systems, optimize performance, establish testing frameworks, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and provide technical leadership.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven track record of building high-quality iOS applications in production
- Owned complex, business-critical mobile systems end-to-end
- Experience making deep architectural tradeoffs on iOS
- Fluent in Swift and familiar with Xcode, UIKit, SwiftUI
Responsibilities
- Build and ship new experiences on iOS
- Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale
- Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks for account, trust, and commerce flows
- Establish robust testing frameworks and refine app architecture
- Collaborate with product, design, research, and backend teams
- Provide technical leadership for OpenAI's iOS platform
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends