Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS)
Wispr Flow2 hours ago
Base Salary
$270k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a reliable screen-context engine for dictation, Notetaker, Instruct Mode, and future products.
- Own the architecture of Wispr’s macOS platform and establish technical direction across accessibility, native integrations, memory, state, and background behavior.
- Solve difficult performance, correctness, and cross-application failures.
- Expand Flow’s screen understanding while protecting performance and user privacy.
- Create durable OS-specific foundations that other engineers can extend.
- Turn ambiguous technical problems into clear direction for a team.
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 UX metric, not only a feature roadmap.
- Exceptional platform depth; prior experience with voice, ML, Electron, accessibility APIs, or macOS is not strictly required.
Benefits
- Wispr sponsors H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM OPT, and more, with immigration-law-firm support and reasonable efforts toward sponsorship if an offer is made.
- The company provides a fair and accessible interview process with accommodations or adjustments available upon request.
Tech Stack
ElectronmacOS
Categories
About Wispr Flow
Wispr Flow builds cross-platform dictation software that lets people talk instead of type across their apps, with auto-editing, command mode, and 100+ languages. The company sells subscription software to consumers and businesses; its flagship product runs on Mac, iPhone, Windows, and Android. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.