About the job
About Our Team
At OpenAI, we are developing a robust Swift platform, from architecture to continuous integration, that empowers hundreds of engineers and their agents to innovate within ChatGPT, Atlas, Sora, and various other rapidly advancing applications. Our mission is to enable teams to expedite development while enhancing both performance and reliability.
Role Overview
We are seeking experienced Staff+ iOS engineers with diverse backgrounds in the iOS platform. We value expertise in performance optimization, build/CI systems, or enhancing AI developer productivity. Whether your specialty lies in UI frameworks or automated testing, your contributions will lead to reduced friction, minimized complexity, fewer regressions, and improved overall performance.
If you are passionate about scaling Swift development alongside advanced AI tools, we invite you to apply for this exciting role.
This position is open in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance foundational Swift frameworks utilized across multiple applications and platforms (caching, state management, observability, navigation, and component systems).
- Boost application performance (startup speed, responsiveness, memory efficiency, battery life) through profiling, increased visibility, regression prevention, and architectural patterns.
- Enhance reliability by systematically reducing crashes, improving error handling, and driving improvements in the release process.
- Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to identify pain points and emerging infrastructure requirements.
- Create internal tools and automation (Bazel, CI, testing frameworks, Codex agent skills) to accelerate engineering velocity.
- Simplify complex real-world constraints into clean abstractions through intuitive APIs, enforceable contracts, and safe defaults.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Strong fundamentals in iOS engineering (Swift, concurrency, networking, Xcode ecosystem, familiarity with UIKit/SwiftUI) and an understanding of contemporary features and best practices.
- A penchant for tackling platform challenges: frameworks, architecture, performance, and tools that empower and accelerate other engineers.
- Demonstrated ownership: proactively identifying risks and opportunities, driving projects to completion, and adapting quickly.
- A strong focus on measurement: able to instrument, define metrics, conduct experiments, and iterate based on data-driven insights.

