Staff Engineer, Windows Desktop - Lead Platform Quality

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

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.