We're looking for a Desktop Application Engineer to help build and evolve LangFlow, a powerful no-code interface for building GenAI flows. In this role, you will design and implement cross-platform desktop applications using Tauri, delivering intuitive, high-performance experiences for developers and AI practitioners.

If you're a product-minded engineer who thrives at the intersection of UI/UX, performance, and elegant architecture, we want to hear from you.

Your role and responsibilities

What you will do:

Design and build cross-platform desktop applications using Tauri, Rust, Python, and TypeScript/React
Develop intuitive, performant user interfaces for building, editing, and managing AI flows
Collaborate closely with product designers and backend/API engineers to create seamless user experiences
Optimize application performance and responsiveness across platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Integrate with backend APIs and local storage, ensuring robust offline and online functionality
Write maintainable, testable code and participate in peer code reviews and design discussions
Continuously improve application usability, accessibility, and stability

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Your experience should include:

Minimum of 1-3 years of relevant industry experience in Software Engineering
Experience in desktop or frontend application development
Proficiency with Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React
Strong experience developing applications with Tauri, Electron, or similar frameworks
Solid understanding of UI/UX design principles and modern frontend tooling
Familiarity with local storage management, IPC, and native system integration

Comfort working in cross-functional teams with designers, product managers, and backend engineers
Excellent problem-solving skills and an eye for detail

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience contributing to open-source desktop or developer tools
Familiarity with GenAI, LLM APIs, and building interactive AI-driven interfaces

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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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