iOS Engineer, Ad Formats

About the Team

The Monetization team is a new cross-functional group working across engineering, product, research, and design to build the foundational systems that will help OpenAI scale access to intelligence responsibly. Our mission is to develop user-first, privacy-preserving monetization products, including next-generation ads experiences, that strengthen user trust, unlock economic opportunity, and support OpenAI’s long-term innovation.

Monetization plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to continue pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities while ensuring the benefits of AGI are broadly shared. We believe monetization must be aligned with user value, uphold rigorous privacy and safety standards, and sustain a healthy ecosystem of developers, advertisers, and businesses.

This team operates in a greenfield environment and moves quickly through prototyping, experimentation, and iterative deployment. We partner closely with Product, Design, and Research to bring new ad experiences into real-world systems across OpenAI surfaces at global scale, including thoughtfully integrating them into the core ChatGPT experience.

About the Role

We’re looking for an iOS Engineer to help build the native iOS experiences and client-side systems that power how ads are structured, rendered, and delivered across OpenAI’s ads ecosystem. This role sits within the Ads Formats team, which owns the creative rendering and presentation layer for next-generation ads experiences across different surfaces and media types.

You’ll help build the iOS infrastructure and tooling that support formats such as text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ads, while ensuring they render reliably and perform efficiently across platforms. You’ll work closely with backend, Product, Design, Research, and Safety partners to shape iOS architecture that supports user-first, privacy-preserving monetization experiences within ChatGPT and OpenAI’s broader mobile ecosystem.

In this role, you will

• Build and ship ads format experiences on iOS, including text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive ad surfaces.

• Design and maintain shared iOS frameworks and primitives for ad rendering, creative presentation, media handling, format validation, and policy-aware UX patterns.

• Own complex iOS systems end-to-end across UI architecture, networking, local persistence/state, observability, rendering performance, and release processes.

• Build robust integrations with Apple platform and ecosystem components, including media playback, deep links, app lifecycle behavior, accessibility, privacy controls, and device capabilities.

• Optimize performance, reliability, and responsiveness at global scale, including rendering quality, scrolling performance, startup time, media load latency, network resiliency, battery usage, and crash-free sessions.

• Establish and evolve testing and quality systems, including unit, integration, snapshot/UI, automated regression, and release validation workflows.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Research, backend, and Safety to deliver ads experiences that meet OpenAI’s highest standards for safety, privacy, fairness, and policy compliance.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and setting engineering standards across iOS ads formats and monetization surfaces.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant iOS ownership.

• Have a proven track record shipping high-quality iOS applications in production, especially for user-facing, performance-sensitive, or trust-sensitive experiences.

• Are fluent in Swift and experienced with Apple’s ecosystem, including Xcode, SwiftUI, UIKit, and modern iOS architecture patterns.

• Have owned complex mobile systems end-to-end across architecture, delivery, instrumentation, quality, and operations.

• Have experience building polished mobile UI systems, media-rich experiences, rendering frameworks, design systems, or reusable product infrastructure.

• Enjoy making pragmatic architectural tradeoffs while keeping systems maintainable, testable, and scalable.

• Care deeply about performance, reliability, privacy, and user experience, and you bring a high bar for polish.

• Thrive in 0→1 environments where systems, architecture, and user experiences must be defined from scratch.

• Bonus: Have experience with ads formats, creative rendering systems, media delivery, native ads, conversational products, mobile monetization, or large-scale consumer mobile applications.

Location

This role is exclusively based in our San Francisco HQ. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

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 cont