Design Engineer

About the role

Design is not what it looks like. Design is how it works. Wispr Flow is one of the most loved products—among Silicon Valley techies and the average person. As a layer on top of every app, we have a major responsibility to make it feel delightful and never break their flow. This constraint forced us to invent new interaction paradigms: the floating Flow Bar on desktop, the Flow Bubble on Android, and the voice keyboard on iOS. Without design engineers as influential voices in the company, none of this would be possible.

You’ll work closely with product engineers, designers, and our founders, Tanay and Sahaj. A big reason Flow feels the way it does is that they care about getting the smallest details perfect.

Challenges ahead include interaction patterns for upcoming products across devices, AI-first design systems to maintain velocity as we lean into agentic coding, and foundational work on how the next generation of software looks and feels.

Responsibilities

• Design interfaces for voice-first interactions across devices.
• Have a key voice in the direction of the product roadmap.
• Build new interaction paradigms on top of frontier models for next-gen HCI.
• Build systems to enable the whole company to ship better UI/UX.
• Talk to customers, observe them, and obsessively improve the product.

Qualifications

• You have strong opinions about what makes an interface feel right and the ability to defend them.
• You notice if a single pixel is off on the screen.
• You would be embarrassed to ship a non-seamless UI.
• You look at existing user interfaces and think, “Ahh, I wish I could just make this better.”
• You aim to deeply understand users, their emotions, and love to craft their journey.

Tech Stack

React, TypeScript, SCSS modules, Storybook, Motion, Lottie, Lucide, Figma

Logistics

About 60% of the team is in San Francisco; the rest are remote, mostly US-based.

• If you're in SF: You’ll be in the office most days. Most of the team is here five days a week; a few do three or four days depending on family or long commutes.
• If you're remote: We’re open to remote for some roles. We fly remote teammates to SF for three to four days a month.

Visa sponsorship: We sponsor H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM + OPT, and more. We can’t guarantee sponsorship for every role or candidate, but if we make you an offer, we’ll make every reasonable effort with the help of an immigration law firm.

Benefits

• Equity on employee-friendly terms: extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs.
• Health, dental, and vision: 100% of premiums covered on the Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO; 75% for dependents (US only).
• 401(k) with up to a 4% match (US only).
• Flexible time off and company holidays.
• All meals in the office, plus commuter benefits and relocation reimbursement if moving to San Francisco.
• A high-spec laptop, monitor, and a whisper-friendly microphone.
• Regular team events and off-sites.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (12 weeks for non-birthing parent).

Pay

Compensation range: $220K – $350K