Description
Location
San Francisco; New York City; Seattle
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Applied AI
Compensation
- $185K – $385K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- 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, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
We’re building up the core Swift platform, from architecture to CI, that enables hundreds of engineers (and their agents) to develop new capabilities in ChatGPT, Atlas, Sora, and other rapidly evolving apps. Our focus is helping teams move quickly while improving on performance or reliability.
About the Role
We’re hiring Staff+ engineers with a variety of iOS platform backgrounds, including people who may specialize in performance, build/CI, or AI developer productivity. Whether you focus on UI frameworks or automated testing, your work will show up as less friction, less complexity, fewer regressions, and better performance.
If you're rethinking how to scale Swift development in the context of increasingly capable AI tools, this is the role for you.
We are hiring in San Francisco, New York and Seattle.
In this role, you may:
- Build and evolve foundational Swift frameworks used across multiple apps and platforms (caching, state management, observability, navigation, component systems).
- Improve app performance (startup, responsiveness, memory, battery) through profiling, visibility, regression prevention, or architecture patterns.
- Strengthen reliability: systemically reduce crashes, improve error handling, or drive release process improvements.
- Embed with product engineering teams in order to understand pain points or emerging infrastructure needs.
- Develop internal tooling and automation (Bazel, CI, testing, guardrails, Codex agent skills and systems) that increase engineering velocity.
- Translate messy real-world constraints into clean abstractions: simple APIs, enforceable contracts, safe defaults.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have strong iOS engineering fundamentals (Swift, concurrency, networking, Xcode ecosystem, some UIKit/SwiftUI) and are familiar with the latest features and practices.
- Gravitate towards platform problems: frameworks, architecture, performance, or tools that empower and accelerate others.
- Take ownership: continually identify the biggest risks/opportunities, drive projects to completion, and update quickly.
- Care about measurement: instrument, define metrics, run experiments, and iterate based on data.
- Have strong communication and collaboration skills—aligning on interfaces, navigating tradeoffs, and driving cross-team execution.
- Tend to think in systems, fight entropy, and enjoy an ambiguous challenge.
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.