Android Systems Engineer, Consumer Devices

Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this position is $216K – $342K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

About the Team

The Consumer Devices team is building a new generation of AI-native experiences that bring OpenAI’s technology closer to people throughout their day. We explore how AI can become deeply integrated into the devices people already use,understanding context, helping users accomplish tasks, coordinating across apps and services, and making use of capabilities that are uniquely available on the device.

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 to create experiences that would be difficult or impossible to build as a conventional mobile application.

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, inter-process communication, permissions, notifications, intents, and other platform capabilities.
• Unlock device capabilities: Identify and use capabilities such as audio, camera, sensors, connectivity, location, notifications, credentials, and other device signals to enable useful, context-aware AI experiences.
• Build agentic mobile experiences: Develop systems that allow AI-powered experiences to help users complete multi-step tasks and coordinate actions across applications, services, and device functionality.
• Create scalable abstractions: Turn device-specific capabilities into well-designed platform layers and reusable components that can support multiple Android devices, OEMs, form factors, and product experiences.
• Prototype new interaction models: Rapidly explore new Android capabilities, APIs, and device features to understand what is technically possible and help shape product direction.
• Own experiences end to end: Take ideas from early technical exploration through architecture, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration in production.
• Build for reliability and performance: Ensure experiences remain fast, power-efficient, resilient, and reliable across a diverse Android device ecosystem.
• Design for privacy and security: Carefully handle permissions, user data, device access, authentication, and system capabilities while maintaining clear user control and trust.
• Partner across disciplines: Work closely with product, design, research, backend, AI, systems, and partner engineering teams to turn emerging AI capabilities into cohesive consumer experiences.
• Help define the future platform: Stay current with new Android releases, APIs, device capabilities, and ecosystem developments, and use that knowledge to identify opportunities for entirely new product experiences.

Requirements

• Have deep experience building and shipping high-quality Android software used by real customers.
• Have 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.
• Are highly proficient in Kotlin and/or Java and comfortable working across a large Android codebase.
• Have experience working with AOSP, Android framework internals, system applications, privileged APIs, device software, or OEM-specific Android integrations.
• Have experience integrating software with hardware or device capabilities and enjoy debugging problems that cross application, operating-system, and device boundaries.
• Understand the realities of building across the Android ecosystem, including OS versions, device configurations, OEM customizations, permissions, power management, and platform fragmentation.
• Care deeply about product quality and user experience, not just technical correctness.
• Think creatively about what new platform capabilities make possible and enjoy turning emerging technology into intuitive consumer experiences.
• Thrive in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments where the right technical and product approach is not obvious at outset.
• Take ownership of problems, develop strong points of view, and can independently drive work from exploration through production.
• Enjoy 0→1 product development and are energized by building experiences for which established patterns may not yet exist.
• Stay current with new Android technologies, APIs, operating-system capabilities, and broader developments across the mobile ecosystem.
• Collaborate effectively with internal teams and external platform or device partners.