ML Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Application for ML Engineer at Wispr, a company building the first voice interface a billion people use every day. Our first product, Flow, lets you talk instead of type anywhere on your computer or phone, and turns messy speech into polished text that is ready to send. It's scaled from $2M → $50M in ARR in under 12 months with millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers.

🏢 About Wispr

We're building the first voice interface a billion people use every day. Our first product, Flow, lets you talk instead of type anywhere on your computer or phone, and turns messy speech into polished text that is ready to send. It's scaled from $2M → $50M in ARR in under 12 months with millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers.

🎯 The Role

As a ML 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 with fine-tuning and RL.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Prototyping and designing new features of our voice interface
• Building infrastructure to handle <500ms LLM inference for millions of requests
• Scaling the personalization of our speech models and LLMs with fine-tuning and RL

📌 Required Qualifications

• Previous founding or startup experience
• Experience optimizing ML inference or engineering systems for research teams
• Fluency in Python and LLM development
• Attention to detail and eagerness to learn
• Aptitude and clarity of thought

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Creativity, excellence in engineering, and code velocity

🎁 Benefits

• Equity on employee-friendly terms, including extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs
• Health, dental and vision coverage (100% premium on Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO, 75% for dependents)
• 401(k) with up to a 4% match
• 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)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• Visa sponsorship: H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM + OPT, and more