Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows)
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at Wispr Flow. San Francisco · full-time · $270,000–$350,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the technical direction for Windows architecture and its connections to native features
- Improve speed and reliability across onboarding, text insertion, screen context and background behavior
- Track down performance and correctness problems across different devices and applications
- Choose and refine measures for Windows activation, satisfaction, speed, retention and support demand
- Build reusable foundations that help the Windows product ship with consistent quality
What you bring
- You have created a client platform or system that other engineers went on to build with
- You have recently delivered substantial production code yourself
- You have owned and improved measures of the user experience
Who this fits
This senior individual-contributor role suits an engineer who pairs architectural judgment with hands-on coding and deep client-platform expertise. The job is onsite in San Francisco. Windows expertise is an advantage, while voice, ML and Electron experience are not required.
From the employer
About Wispr
Wispr is an AI research and product company building the voice interface for computing. AI can now reason, code, and act. Yet, humans still do the work of the interface. We think that’s backwards.
Our first products are Flow, which lets you speak naturally in any application, and Notetaker, which builds context across conversations. We’re building toward an interface that can perceive, understand, and take action with earned trust. That means solving hard problems across models, systems, and product - and caring about the final human experience as deeply as the technology underneath it.
We’re a talent-dense team that holds strong opinions, tests them quickly, and builds technology that sparks joy. Our goal is to build the first voice interface used every day by a billion people.
About the role
You’ll own the architecture and reliability of Wispr on Windows. You’ll close its most important quality gaps, define how improvement is measured, and build foundations that make every Windows experience easier to ship correctly.
What you’ll do
Set technical direction for Windows architecture and native integrations
Make onboarding, text insertion, screen context, and background behavior performant and reliable
Solve difficult performance and correctness failures across devices and applications
Define and improve the metrics that represent the Windows user experience, including activation, satisfaction, performance, retention, and support volume
Build reusable systems that raise quality across the Windows product
You may be a fit if
You’ve designed a client system or platform other engineers successfully built on
You’ve recently shipped meaningful production code yourself
You debug unfamiliar systems from first principles
You’ve owned and improved metrics that represent the user experience
You combine architectural judgment with attention to product quality
Deep Windows experience is a strong advantage, but not required. We care most about exceptional client-platform depth. Prior experience with voice, ML, or Electron is not required.
Get to know us
Logistics
We sponsor H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM OPT, and more. We can't guarantee sponsorship for every role, but if we make you an offer we'll make every reasonable effort, with help from our immigration law firm.
We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. The strongest candidates we meet rarely do, so don't exclude yourself prematurely. We're rethinking how humans interact with AI, and doing that well demands diversity of perspective and experience.
We're committed to a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.
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