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Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS)

Wispr Flow· Software - Platform
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San Francisco$270k - $350k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role focusing on owning the macOS platform architecture and building its screen-context engine to enable features like dictation, Notetaker, and Instruct Mode, while solving desktop systems problems and creating durable foundations for future products.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • You’ve designed a system or platform other engineers successfully built on
  • You’ve recently shipped meaningful production code for a desktop application
  • You debug unfamiliar systems from first principles
  • You’ve owned a quality or UX metric, not only a feature roadmap
  • You turn ambiguous technical problems into clear direction for a team
  • Prior experience with voice, ML, Electron, accessibility APIs, or macOS is not strictly required if you bring exceptional platform depth.

Skills

Required:Screen-context engineSystem designDesktop application development

Benefits

  • Equity on employee-friendly terms, including extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs. Ask us for more details!
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow | Effortless Voice Dictation

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

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