# Staff Engineer, Desktop

**Company:** [Wispr Flow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wispr-flow)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $270k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** macOS, Desktop Applications, Accessibility Apis, Electron, Machine Learning, Voice Systems, Native Integrations, System Architecture, Performance Optimization, Cross-Application Integration
**Posted:** 2026-09-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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