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Highlight unifies context across every person and tool on your team, seamlessly bridging information silos. It evolves with your organization to proactively route knowledge and reliably automate workflows.\nThe Role\nWe're seeking a Member of Technical Staff to take ownership of native app aspects across the board. Highlight’s core product depends on capturing context from the user’s device, and we’re looking for a software engineer to own runtime and make it production-grade: low-latency, lightweight, and highly reliable.\nThis is a highly technical role for someone who’s excited to work at the intersection of desktop software, native development, and AI integration, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.\nNote: this is an on-site role, requiring five days a week in our office.\nJob Responsibilities\nOwn the architecture and implementation of Highlight’s native desktop runtime across macOS and Windows\n\nDrive improvements to performance, stability, and resource efficiency across native processes\n\nImplement robust telemetry, diagnostics, and monitoring to detect regressions and accelerate debugging\n\nCollaborate with backend engineering, ML engineering, and product to deliver end-to-end features across the desktop app and backend systems\n\nEstablish best practices for native development, testing, release processes, and cross-platform compatibility\n\nProfile\nWe’re looking for someone who is interested in building the AI user experience for the future. We punch above our weight so we value extreme ownership, accountability, and proactiveness.\nThis role will focus on hard systems problems-ASR reliability, native event capture performance, OCR/accessibility latency, and on-device inference-so Highlight can scale to more users without regressions in responsiveness or quality. The right engineer will be comfortable debugging OS-specific edge cases, improving telemetry and observability, and shipping features that require deep integration with native APIs.\nYou are a good fit if you have:\n5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience shipping native desktop software.\n\nStrong systems fundamentals: you write clean, maintainable code and care deeply about performance and reliability.\n\nExperience building and debugging macOS and/or Windows native systems.\n\nTrack record of improving latency, CPU/memory usage, and stability in production applications.\n\nComfort owning systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, instrumentation, and shipping safely across platforms.\n\nA bias toward action: you ship quickly, measure impact, and iterate based on real user feedback.\n\nData driven orientation: Be able to effectively measure what you’ve built.\n\nOwnership mentality (no task is too small for you) - it’s all hands on deck here and we need everyone rowing the boat.\n\nExcellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset - we’re extremely lean so we’re looking for a team player who works well with others.\n\nType-A tendencies: maybe you’re extremely detail-oriented. 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