Job Description

Sr. AI Desktop Engineer

Location: Tempe, AZ — 100% Onsite, 5 Days/Week

Experience: 8+ Years

Employment Type: W2 / C2C

Work Authorization: USC, GC, EAD (OPT, GC EAD, H4 EAD, L2 EAD)

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior AI Desktop Engineer to design, build, and ship cross-platform desktop applications that bring enterprise AI capabilities directly into daily workflows.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience building and deploying Electron-based desktop applications for both macOS and Windows, combined with experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities, enterprise APIs, authentication, workflow automation, and secure desktop technologies.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role requiring strong software engineering, desktop application, AI integration, and enterprise integration experience.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Significant hands-on experience building and shipping production cross-platform desktop applications using Electron or comparable frameworks.
• Strong experience developing for both macOS and Windows.
• Experience designing intuitive, accessible, and high-performance desktop user experiences.
• Experience automating manual or fragmented workflows into desktop-first applications.
• Hands-on experience with desktop capabilities including:
• Local caching and synchronization
• Background/long-running tasks
• Native OS notifications
• Deep links and protocol handlers
• File-system integration
• Clipboard integration
• Multi-window applications
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into end-user applications, including one or more of:
• LLMs
• RAG
• AI agents
• Workflow orchestration
• Conversational interfaces
• Voice interfaces
• Responsible AI guardrails
• Strong API and integration experience with REST, GraphQL, and event-driven services.
• Experience with desktop release and deployment practices:
• Code signing
• macOS notarization
• Auto-update mechanisms
• CI/CD for multi-platform builds
• Enterprise distribution
• Intune, Jamf, or comparable MDM
• Crash/performance monitoring
• Automated UI testing
• Phased rollouts
• Working proficiency in Python or comparable backend language.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with containers, CI/CD, and observability.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and enterprise SSO.
• Experience with local data protection using OS keychain/credential vault technologies and secrets management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-facing skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing internal productivity or desktop applications for enterprise, corporate, operations, support-center, finance, or similar environments.
• Experience with design systems, accessibility, usability testing, and product analytics.
• Experience with Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric, vector search, prompt orchestration, or agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise systems such as Microsoft 365, ERP, ticketing, HRIS, data platforms, or identity providers.
• Experience in retail, restaurant, ecommerce, loyalty, finance, supply chain, or other high-volume enterprise environments.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, business analysts, architects, and engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers through design reviews and code reviews.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality cross-platform desktop applications for macOS and Windows.
• Build AI-enabled desktop experiences that simplify complex business workflows.
• Replace manual and browser-heavy processes with efficient desktop workflows.
• Integrate desktop applications with enterprise APIs, AI services, and backend platforms.
• Implement secure authentication and enterprise SSO integrations.
• Build reliable desktop release, update, monitoring, and deployment processes.
• Contribute to platform architecture, reusable integration patterns, and engineering standards.
• Partner with business and operations teams to understand workflows and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Monitor application performance, stability, adoption, and user experience.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Senior Desktop/Software Engineer with proven production experience in Electron + macOS + Windows, combined with AI/LLM integration and enterprise application development.

Candidates whose experience is primarily web development, backend development, or AI/ML without substantial production desktop application experience may not be a fit.

Apply with an updated resume highlighting production Electron, macOS, Windows, AI/LLM, enterprise integration, and desktop deployment experience.