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Wispr is an AI research and product company building voice interfaces for computing. The company's first products—Flow (a natural voice interface for any application) and Notetaker (which builds context across conversations)—represent a shift toward interfaces that can perceive, understand, and take action with earned trust.
In this Staff Engineer role, you will own the architecture of Wispr's macOS platform and build its screen-context engine—the foundation that enables every feature to understand what is happening on a user's screen. This is a high-impact position where you'll solve the hardest desktop systems problems and create primitives that improve Flow on macOS for millions of users.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and build a reliable screen-context engine that powers dictation, Notetaker, Instruct Mode, and future products
- Set technical direction across accessibility, native integrations, memory, state, and background behavior
- Debug and solve difficult performance, correctness, and cross-application failures
- Expand what Flow can understand while protecting performance and user privacy
- Turn OS-specific knowledge into durable foundations that other engineers can extend and build upon
- Provide technical leadership and clear direction to the team on complex, ambiguous problems
Wispr is a talent-dense team that holds strong opinions, tests them quickly, and builds technology that sparks joy. The company is Series B funded and focused on building the first voice interface used every day by a billion people.
Requirements:
- You have designed a system or platform that other engineers have successfully built on
- You have recently shipped meaningful production code for a desktop application
- You can debug unfamiliar systems from first principles
- You have owned a quality or UX metric, not only a feature roadmap
- You can turn ambiguous technical problems into clear direction for a team
- Prior experience with voice, ML, Electron, accessibility APIs, or macOS is not strictly required if you bring exceptional platform depth
The company sponsors H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM OPT, and other visa categories. Wispr encourages applications from candidates who don't meet every qualification and is committed to a fair and accessible interview process.
