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About the role
About Wispr
Wispr Flow is making it as effortless to interact with your devices as talking to a close friend.
Today, Wispr Flow is the first voice dictation platform people use more than their keyboards — because it understands you perfectly on the first try. It’s context-aware, personalized, and works anywhere you can type, on desktop or phone.
In 2026, in addition to dictation, we're focused on building native actions — an agentic framework that understands you, and works reliably.
We’re a team of AI researchers, designers, growth experts, and engineers rethinking human-computer interaction from the ground up. We value high-agency teammates who communicate openly, obsess over users, and sweat the details. We thrive on spirited debate, truth-seeking, and real-world impact.
We've grown our revenue +150% every quarter for the last 4 quarters, and have raised $81M from Tier 1 VC firms and other well-known angels.
About THE Role
As a software engineer at Wispr, you’ll play a crucial role in building the first capable, habit forming voice interface that scales to a billion users. Members of our technical staff are responsible for prototyping and designing new features of our voice interface, building infrastructure to handle <500ms LLM inference for millions of requests from everywhere around the world, and scaling the personalization of our speech models and LLMs.
What You'll DO
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Build high-quality, tasteful product experiences across our native macOS and Windows apps, taking features from idea to shipped with strong attention to detail
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Own entire product surfaces end-to-end, including the UI, the underlying logic, agentic harnesses, and backend services.
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Obsess over the feel of the product: latency, animations, agentic quality - the small details that separate good software from great software
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Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day work to move faster, prototype ideas quickly, and raise the quality of what you ship
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Contribute to product decisions, not just execution — you have a point of view on what we should build and why
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Raise the quality bar through code review, documentation, and engineering practices that the whole team benefits from
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WHAT MAKES YOU A GREAT FIT
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Strong experience building native applications on macOS, Windows, or a combination — you care about platform conventions and know how to work with them
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You have high product taste: you notice when something feels off, and you know how to fix it
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Comfortable working across the stack within a product surface — you don't stop at the UI layer if the problem goes deeper
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You move fast and ship often; you have a bias for getting real things in front of users over waiting for perfection
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You use AI coding tools fluently and have a point of view on how to get the most out of them
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Experience with performance-sensitive UIs is a plus, as Wispr lives on top of every app a user has open and responsiveness is core to the experience
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Bonus: experience building accessibility features, system-level integrations, or consumer products with strong user retention
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We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
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