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iOS Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering

OpenAI
OpenAI Salary
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2026
About The Team

The ChatGPT organization at OpenAI supports our mission by innovating across multiple core domains that shape how millions of people experience advanced AI. We are growing cross-functionally and hiring engineers across teams including Growth, Ecosystems, Personalization, Search Infrastructure, and more — all contributing to the next generation of AI-driven products and platforms.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced iOS Software Engineer to build and improve the ChatGPT iOS app. In this role, you will:

In This Role, You Will

  • Build and ship new iOS features that expand the boundaries of AI-powered mobile applications.
  • Drive improvements in app performance, architecture, test coverage, tooling, and reliability.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, and other Engineering teams to enhance user delight.
  • Own components end-to-end — design, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration.
  • Integrate with backend and AI systems to deliver seamless mobile experiences.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

  • Have deep experience in iOS development (Swift/Objective-C), including frameworks like UIKit/SwiftUI, Core Data, and performance optimization.
  • Are passionate about creating intuitive, performant, and delightful mobile experiences.
  • Enjoy collaborating in cross-disciplinary teams and iterating rapidly.

We are open to hiring in San Fransisco, New York and Seattle

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.

For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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