About the company
The Consumer Devices team is building a new generation of AI-native experiences that bring OpenAI's technology closer to people throughout their day.
About the role
As an Android Systems Engineer, you will help define and build the Android platform capabilities behind the next generation of AI-powered consumer experiences. This is not a traditional application-only Android role. You will work across the Android stack, using system-level APIs, device capabilities, platform integrations, and OEM-specific functionality.
Responsibilities
- Build deeply integrated Android experiences: design and implement product experiences that take advantage of Android platform capabilities.
- Work across the Android platform: develop against Android framework and system APIs, system services, lifecycle and background execution primitives, IPC, permissions, notifications, intents.
- Unlock device capabilities: use audio, camera, sensors, connectivity, location, notifications, credentials, and other device signals.
- Build agentic mobile experiences: develop systems that allow AI-powered experiences to help users complete multi-step tasks.
- Create scalable abstractions: turn device-specific capabilities into well-designed platform layers and reusable components.
- Prototype new interaction models: rapidly explore new Android capabilities, APIs, and device features.
- Own experiences end to end: take ideas from early technical exploration through architecture, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration.
- Build for reliability and performance.
- Design for privacy and security.
- Partner across disciplines.
- Help define the future platform.
Requirements
- Deep experience building and shipping high-quality Android software used by real customers.
- Strong knowledge of the Android platform beyond UI and application development, including framework APIs, system services, process and application lifecycle, permissions, IPC, background execution, and device capabilities.
- Highly proficient in Kotlin and/or Java and comfortable working across a large Android codebase.
- Experience working with AOSP, Android framework internals, system applications, privileged APIs, device software, or OEM-specific Android integrations.
- Experience integrating software with hardware or device capabilities.
- Understand the realities of building across the Android ecosystem.
- Care deeply about product quality and user experience.
- Think creatively about what new platform capabilities make possible.
- Thrive in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments.
- Take ownership of problems.
- Enjoy 0→1 product development.
- Stay current with new Android technologies.
- Collaborate effectively with internal teams and external platform or device partners.
Conditions
- Location: San Francisco, CA.
- Hybrid work model: four days in the office per week.
- Relocation assistance available.