Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows)

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
270K-350K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Consumer Web • Wearables
The best immersive voice keyboard — 5x faster than typing
The Role
Owns the architecture, reliability, and quality of Wispr’s Windows product. Responsibilities include setting technical direction for native integrations, improving onboarding, text insertion, screen context, and background performance, resolving cross-device and application failures, defining user-experience metrics, and building reusable quality systems. The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on production coding and deep client-platform debugging.
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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
  • Our Series B

  • Advancing HCI

  • Introducing Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab

  • Technical challenges behind Flow

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.

Skills Required

  • Experience designing a client system or platform that other engineers successfully built on
  • Recent experience shipping meaningful production code
  • Ability to debug unfamiliar systems from first principles
  • Experience owning and improving metrics representing user experience
  • Strong architectural judgment combined with attention to product quality
  • Deep Windows experience
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The Company
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
49 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Founded in 2021, Wispr is building a more natural interface to interact with technology and bring it to every human on the planet. Wispr is a frontier-tech consumer electronics company building neural interfaces. Wispr is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised $14.6M to date.

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