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San Francisco, CA, USA
250K-325K Annually
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San Francisco, CA, USA
250K-325K Annually
Senior level
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and prototype features for a voice interface, build scalable infrastructure for LLM inference, and enhance personalization of speech models.
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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're 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 Principal 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 are we looking for?
  • Previous founding or startup experience

  • Fluency in Typescript, React, and Python

  • User-focused design intuition and design taste

  • Attention to detail and eagerness to learn

  • Aptitude and clarity of thought

  • Creativity, excellence in engineering, and code velocity

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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Top Skills

Python
React
Typescript
HQ

Wispr South San Francisco, California, USA Office

400 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA, United States, 94080

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