Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows)

Applied Methods Ltd; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Wispr, an AI research and product company, seeks a Staff Engineer to own Windows desktop architecture and reliability in San Francisco. You will define how improvements are measured and build foundations to simplify shipping across Windows experiences.

You should have deep Windows experience or similar client platform depth, a track record shipping production code, and comfort debugging complex systems from first principles. This on-site role emphasizes architectural leadership and quality.

Qualifications

• Deep Windows experience or equivalent client platform depth.
• Recent production code delivery experience.
• Ability to debug unfamiliar systems from first principles.
• Experience owning and improving user-experience metrics.
• Strong architectural judgment with product quality focus.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Windows architecture and native integrations.
• Improve onboarding, text insertion, screen context, and background behavior for performance and reliability.
• Resolve hard performance and correctness issues across devices and apps.
• Define and improve metrics representing Windows UX: activation, satisfaction, performance, retention, support volume.
• Build reusable systems to raise quality across the Windows product.

Skills

Windows architecture

Performance debugging

Metrics ownership

Architectural judgment

Client-platform depth

Job description

# Staff Engineer, Desktop (Windows)Staff / PrincipalSoftware - PlatformSan FranciscoOn-SiteFull-TimePosted 3 days agoUSD 27000k–35000k/yr## About the role## **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 qualityDeep 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.*