Android Systems Engineer, Consumer Devices

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 are exploring 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.

Our work spans software, devices, platform technologies, and strategic partnerships. We operate as a highly collaborative, fast-moving team focused on turning ambitious ideas into reliable products that can reach people at significant scale.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• 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 the 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.

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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