Android Engineer, ChatGPT ImageGen
OpenAI· Artificial Intelligence· Sep 11, 2026 · 2mo ago
San Francisco
Hybrid
Full-time
Mid
$185K–$385K
Job description
About the Team
The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by building products that bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. The Image Generation team is responsible for one of the fastest-growing experiences in ChatGPT, enabling users to create, edit, and transform images through natural language. Recent advances in our multimodal models have dramatically improved image quality, instruction following, editing precision, consistency, and text rendering, unlocking entirely new creative and professional workflows.
We work at the intersection of research and product, partnering closely with researchers, designers, product managers, and platform engineers to bring state-of-the-art image generation capabilities to life across ChatGPT and our mobile applications. Millions of users rely on these experiences every day to create, communicate, learn, and build.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Android Software Engineer to build and improve image generation experiences within the ChatGPT Android app.
You will help define how users create, edit, and interact with visual content powered by the latest multimodal AI models. This is an opportunity to work on a highly visible product area, translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into intuitive, performant, and delightful mobile experiences used by millions around the world. ChatGPT's Android app already enables users to generate and transform images directly from their devices, and we're just getting started.
In this role, you will:
- Build and ship new Android features that power image generation and image editing experiences.
- Create intuitive user experiences that make advanced AI capabilities feel seamless and accessible.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Research, and Engineering teams to bring new multimodal capabilities to production.
- Drive improvements in app performance, reliability, architecture, testing, and developer tooling.
- Optimize media-heavy workflows, rendering performance, networking, and responsiveness across a wide range of Android devices.
- Own projects end-to-end—from ideation and implementation through launch, measurement, and iteration.
- Help shape the future of AI-powered creativity on mobile.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Have deep experience building Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android development frameworks.
- Have shipped consumer-facing mobile products at scale and care deeply about performance, quality, and user experience.
- Enjoy working on highly cross-functional teams and collaborating closely with product, design, and research partners.
- Are excited by multimodal AI and the opportunity to bring cutting-edge image generation technology to millions of users.
- Have experience building media-rich, graphics-intensive, camera, photo, video, or creative tooling applications.
- Thrive in fast-moving environments where you can help define both the product and technical direction.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
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