Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS)

Wispr Flow

$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in systems architecture or platform development
  • Experience shipping production code for desktop applications
  • Strong problem-solving skills with first principles approach
  • Experience with quality or UX metrics beyond roadmap management
  • Ability to lead teams through ambiguous technical challenges

Responsibilities

  • Build a screen-context engine for various products including dictation and Notetaker
  • Set technical direction for accessibility and native integrations
  • Address complex performance and cross-application issues
  • Enhance Flow's capabilities while maintaining user privacy
  • Create foundational OS-specific knowledge for broader engineering use

Benefits

  • Sponsorship for H1B, O1, EB1, L1, and STEM OPT visas
  • Encouragement to apply even if not meeting all qualifications
  • Focus on diversity of perspective and experience in the hiring process
Full Job Description
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 Flow 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
  • Our Series B
  • Advancing HCI
  • Introducing Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab
  • Technical challenges behind Flow


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.

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