Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows)
- Salary
- $270K - $350K
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Sponsors visas
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Wispr Flow's standard text
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.
Wispr Flow's standard text
Get to know us
- Our operating principles
- Our Series B
- Advancing HCI
- Introducing Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab
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.
Wispr Flow's standard text
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.
What this role asks for
51% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Wispr Flow's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Wispr Flow's other open postings on this site.
The team: Software - Platform HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 9 open in Software - Platform. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
CI/CD (2 of 9), Machine Learning (2 of 9)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Platform Engineer, Developer Experience posted Oct 16
- Platform Engineer, Enterprise posted Sep 12
- Platform Engineer, Android posted Sep 11
- Staff Engineer, Desktop (macOS) posted Sep 11
- Platform Engineer, Billing Systems posted Jul 27
- Platform Engineer, Product Security posted Jul 27
- Platform Engineer, Infrastructure posted Jul 27
- Head of Engineering, Enterprise posted Jun 22
From the team and dates on Wispr Flow's own job board.
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