iOS Engineer, Social Products

About the Team

The Social Products team explores how to redesign familiar social products using the intelligence of our models to solve their problems. We envision going back to a world where social media is a positive force.

About the Role

We are looking for an engineer to focus on building new iOS experiences that reimagine how people connect, create, and share using OpenAI’s technology. You’ll help define the foundation of social interaction across our products — blending thoughtful design, modern iOS development and AI capabilities.

We’re looking for engineers who thrive in small, nimble teams, bring creative product ideas to the table, and pair strong execution with sharp judgment. You should be comfortable operating with ambiguity, learning from experiments, and using those insights to refine both product direction and technical implementation.

In this role, you will:

• Build and ship new iOS experiences that showcase how AI can power authentic connection, creativity, and communication.

• Drive end-to-end development of social features — from prototyping and iteration to global-scale launch — using Swift and modern iOS frameworks.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and backend teams to deliver intuitive, high-impact mobile experiences.

• Optimize app performance, reliability, and responsiveness, ensuring seamless experiences for users worldwide.

• Establish robust testing frameworks, refine app architecture, and ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.

• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the direction of OpenAI’s broader iOS platform and engineering best practices.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building and scaling iOS applications.

• Have shipped high-quality, user-facing apps that balance delightful design with reliability, performance, and resilience.

• Have owned complex mobile systems end-to-end — from architecture and implementation to monitoring and iteration.

• Are fluent in Swift and deeply familiar with the Apple ecosystem, including Xcode, UIKit, and SwiftUI.

• Have made thoughtful architectural tradeoffs in pursuit of speed, maintainability, and product impact.

• Care deeply about creating seamless, performant, and secure mobile experiences that feel intuitive and human.

• Enjoy collaborating across design, research, and backend teams to bring ambitious, socially-driven product ideas to life.

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 .

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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.

Compensation

$210K – $325K + Offers Equity