Staff Engineer: macOS Desktop Platform Architect

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Wispr is seeking a senior software engineer to own the architecture of our macOS platform and build the screen-context engine that underpins every feature’s understanding of a user’s screen.

You will solve challenging desktop systems problems, define direction across accessibility, native integrations, memory, state, and background behavior, and create durable OS foundations for future work.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

Wispr is seeking a senior software engineer to own the architecture of our macOS platform and build the screen-context engine that underpins every feature’s understanding of a user’s screen.

You will solve challenging desktop systems problems, define direction across accessibility, native integrations, memory, state, and background behavior, and create durable OS foundations for future work.