Software Engineer, HCI Labs

Wispr Flow

$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in human-computer interaction (HCI) or related fields
  • Proven ability to conduct user research and interpret findings
  • Strong experimental and prototyping skills
  • Deep understanding of input/output theories and practices
  • Familiarity with voice-based technology and AI applications

Responsibilities

  • Design and conduct experiments on new interaction patterns
  • Analyze user behavior to identify needs and pain points
  • Develop and test prototypes for new HCI solutions
  • Iterate rapidly based on user feedback and observations
  • Ensure new interactions are usable and encourage habit formation

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
  • Collaborative and innovative team culture
Full Job Description
About the Role

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 patters 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:
  1. Experimentation with new interaction patterns (pragmatic building, not theory)
  2. Grounding in habit formation and stickiness (what's the point of new HCI if nobody uses it?)
  3. 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!

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