Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS)

San Francisco. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will own the architecture of the macOS platform and build its screen-context engine. You will solve desktop systems problems and create primitives to improve products on macOS.

What you will do

Build a reliable screen-context engine for dictation, Notetaker, Instruct Mode, and future products
Set technical direction across accessibility, native integrations, memory, state, and background behavior
Solve difficult performance, correctness, and cross-application failures
Expand what Flow can understand while protecting performance and user privacy
Turn OS-specific knowledge into durable foundations other engineers can extend

Required qualifications

Designed a system or platform other engineers successfully built on
Recently shipped meaningful production code for a desktop application
Debug unfamiliar systems from first principles
Owned a quality or UX metric, not only a feature roadmap
Turn ambiguous technical problems into clear direction for a team

Nice to have

Prior experience with voice
Prior experience with ML
Prior experience with Electron
Prior experience with accessibility APIs
Prior experience with macOS

Before you apply

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About the company

Wispr is an AI research and product company building the voice interface for computing. They are building toward an interface that can perceive, understand, and take action with earned trust.