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About this role
Read AI wants to turn its desktop app from a meeting recorder into the control center for its whole product — and the hard parts of that job live down at the operating system, not in the browser.
The desktop application today captures meeting audio and surfaces transcripts and reports; the intent is to turn it into the control center for Read meetings, where people prepare beforehand, capture during, and generate outcomes after, in one unified experience. The app is built in Rust with Tauri, with a React frontend, and the hardest problems live at the boundary with the operating system: system audio capture across two very different permission and device models, on-device processing, connections to external hardware for better capture quality, and the release path that keeps installed software healthy on real users’ machines. The role covers expanding meeting capture across Windows and macOS as first-class platforms, prototyping on-device transcription and audio processing, and owning release quality end to end: signing, notarization, auto-update, crash telemetry.
What the company is looking for: 5+ years building software professionally, with meaningful time on desktop or client applications; having shipped installed software to real users on Windows, macOS, or both — and supported it after launch; working proficiency in Rust, or deep systems experience in a comparable language and genuine appetite for Rust; comfort across the native/web boundary, able to work in React and TypeScript; and practical knowledge of OS-level concerns — permissions, device access, background processes, packaging and distribution. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US; the company is not able to sponsor visas for this role. Audio capture, DSP, or real-time media pipeline experience, Tauri, on-device ML, and hardware or peripheral integration experience are listed as nice to have.
Senior Software Engineer positions offer a base pay range of $180,000-$220,000 plus equity and benefits.
About Read AI
Read AI is redefining how teams collaborate by bringing intelligence to every conversation. Its platform works across meetings, messages, and email, and integrates with tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Slack. Read AI is backed by $81 million in funding from Smash Capital, Madrona, and Goodwater Capital.
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