iOS Engineer, Applied Foundations
Senior iOS engineer building core mobile experiences for user accounts, payments, safety, and AI features at OpenAI. Requires 4+ years experience, Swift fluency, and expertise in scalable iOS systems.
$230k – $385k/yr
On-site4+ YOEiOS Engineering
About the job
In this role, you will:
- Build and ship new experiences on iOS that showcase the power of AI.
- Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale.
- Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks and primitives for account, trust, and commerce flows that are used across OpenAI’s mobile apps.
- Establish robust testing frameworks and refine app architecture for long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with product, design, research, and backend teams to deliver high-impact features.
- Provide technical leadership to shape the future of OpenAI’s iOS platform.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Have a proven track record of building high-quality iOS applications in production, especially for systems that need to be reliable and resilient at scale.
- Have owned complex, business-critical mobile systems end-to-end.
- Have experience making deep architectural tradeoffs on iOS.
- Are fluent in Swift and familiar with the Apple development ecosystem (Xcode, UIKit, SwiftUI).
- Care deeply about performance, security, and user experience.
- Enjoy working cross-functionally to bring ambitious product ideas to life.
Skills
SwiftiOSSwiftUIUikitXcodePayment IntegrationsNetworkingLocal State ManagementApp ArchitectureTesting Frameworks