Staff Engineer, Desktop
Own the architecture of a macOS platform and build its screen-context engine for voice and AI products. The role requires deep platform expertise, production desktop application experience, systems debugging ability, and technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the macOS platform.
- Build a reliable screen-context engine supporting 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 the product can understand while protecting performance and user privacy.
- Turn OS-specific knowledge into durable foundations that other engineers can extend.
Requirements
- Experience designing a system or platform that other engineers successfully built on.
- Recent experience shipping meaningful production code for a desktop application.
- Ability to debug unfamiliar systems from first principles.
- Experience owning a quality or user-experience metric, beyond feature roadmaps.
- Ability to turn ambiguous technical problems into clear direction for a team.
Nice to Have
- Experience with voice systems.
- Experience with machine learning.
- Experience with Electron.
- Experience with accessibility APIs.
- Experience with macOS platform development.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $270,000-$350,000.
- Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates.
Skills
macOS, Desktop Applications, Accessibility Apis, Electron, Machine Learning, Voice Systems, Native Integrations, System Architecture, Performance Optimization, Cross-Application Integration
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