Highlight is AI that captures what matters across your meetings, screen, and tools, then drafts the follow-ups where your work happens. Free to start. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We'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. This 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.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience shipping native desktop software
- Strong systems fundamentals: you write clean, maintainable code and care deeply about performance and reliability
- Experience building and debugging macOS and/or Windows native systems
- Track record of improving latency, CPU/memory usage, and stability in production applications
- Comfort owning systems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, instrumentation, and shipping safely across platforms
- A bias toward action: you ship quickly, measure impact, and iterate based on real user feedback
More about this role
Highlight is building a shared intelligence layer for the modern workforce. 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.
We'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.
This 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.
Note: this is an on-site role, requiring five days a week in our office.
Own the architecture and implementation of Highlight’s native desktop runtime across macOS and Windows
Drive improvements to performance, stability, and resource efficiency across native processes
Implement robust telemetry, diagnostics, and monitoring to detect regressions and accelerate debugging
Collaborate with backend...
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