Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS)
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Wispr Flow. San Francisco · full-time · $270,000–$350,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build a screen-awareness engine for dictation, Notetaker, Instruct Mode and products still to come
- Guide macOS work on accessibility, native connections, memory, state and background behavior
- Resolve desktop speed, correctness and cross-application problems while guarding user privacy
- Create durable macOS building blocks that other engineers can build on
What you bring
- You have created a system or platform that teammates successfully used as a foundation
- You have recently delivered substantial code for a desktop app used in production
- You approach unfamiliar systems from fundamentals and turn unclear technical challenges into team direction
- You have been accountable for a quality or UX measure, beyond planning features
Who this fits
This senior, hands-on role suits an engineer with strong platform depth who can shape technical direction and deliver desktop software. The job is onsite in San Francisco. Experience with voice, ML, Electron, accessibility APIs or macOS is not required; the role may offer visa sponsorship, though it is not assured.
From the employer
About Wispr
Wispr is an AI research and product company building the voice interface for computing. AI can now reason, code, and act. Yet, humans still do the work of the interface. We think that’s backwards.
Our first products are Flow, which lets you speak naturally in any application, and Notetaker, which builds context across conversations. We’re building toward an interface that can perceive, understand, and take action with earned trust. That means solving hard problems across models, systems, and product - and caring about the final human experience as deeply as the technology underneath it.
We’re a talent-dense team that holds strong opinions, tests them quickly, and builds technology that sparks joy. Our goal is to build the first voice interface used every day by a billion people.
About the role
You’ll own the architecture of our macOS platform and build its screen-context engine - the foundation that helps every feature understand what is happening on a user’s screen. You’ll solve the hardest desktop systems problems and create primitives that improve Wispr's products on macOS.
What you’ll 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
You may be a fit if
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.
Get to know us
Logistics
We sponsor H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM OPT, and more. We can't guarantee sponsorship for every role, but if we make you an offer we'll make every reasonable effort, with help from our immigration law firm.
We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. The strongest candidates we meet rarely do, so don't exclude yourself prematurely. We're rethinking how humans interact with AI, and doing that well demands diversity of perspective and experience.
We're committed to a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.
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