Software Engineer, HCI Labs

Wispr Flow • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

On the HCI Labs team at Wispr, we're building improved ways of doing I/O and multitasking on computers. Voice to text is the foundation of the voice input layer for next generation computing. The rest of the patterns for how we handle input, output, and the ever increasing threads of work that people manage have not yet been invented. We approach problems in several ways: Experimentation with new interaction patterns (pragmatic building, not theory), Grounding in habit formation and stickiness (what's the point of new HCI if nobody uses it?), Starting with user problems and needs (user adoption requires understanding of the problems we're solving). While there are many places focused on next gen / AI interaction, almost all of these approaches tend to be the "final solution" of an AI interface without helping solve people's problems today. By grounding in problems and retentive features, we can help people to gradually shift their behaviors to a new paradigm for interaction. HCI Labs will be vague, experimental, researchy, and pragmatic in nature. We're looking for people comfortable with this ambiguity, who have a strong desire to experiment, observe their own usage of their prototypes, and rapidly discard and build new prototypes until they become sticky. If you love working on these kinds of ambiguous, experimental problems and have keen product and HCI taste, we'd love to chat!

Requirements

• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong desire to experiment
• Keen product and HCI taste

Responsibilities

• Experiment with new interaction patterns (pragmatic building, not theory)
• Focus on habit formation and stickiness
• Start with user problems and needs
• Experiment, observe own usage of prototypes, and rapidly discard and build new prototypes until they become sticky

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed