System Architect, New Products

Wispr Flow

. Create core building blocks for AI product concepts that teams can dogfood and build on .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing backend and distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and user experience. Proficient in creating shared platform primitives and aligning cross-functional teams to drive architectural decisions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Backend Systems DesignDistributed Systems OwnershipShared Platform Primitives DevelopmentUser-Experience Requirements AlignmentArchitecture-Level Decision Making

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Hard Skills

System DesignGreenfield System DevelopmentContext ManagementMemory ManagementModel PrototypingObservabilityLatency ControlSecurity ControlsCost ControlsDeveloper Tooling

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityDecision-Making

Industry Keywords

AI Product DevelopmentAgentic SystemsContext CaptureExecution HandoffUser PrivacyTrust in SystemsCross-Functional AlignmentPrototyping InfrastructureModel EvaluationScalability Requirements

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create core building blocks for AI product concepts that teams can dogfood and build on
Shape a reference architecture around models, live context, memory, tools, agent harnesses, and durable execution
Decide which components should become general platform primitives for adoption by other teams
Build shared platform primitives for agentic systems development, including memory, context management, tools, and background execution
Create infrastructure for prototyping, training, and evaluating models, with reusable environments and developer tooling
Develop systems for triggers and context capture across devices, surfaces, and modalities
Design harnesses and primitives for coordination and execution handoff between models
Make systems reliable and production-ready through observability, recovery, security, latency controls, and cost controls

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience designing and shipping a greenfield system from an ambiguous problem through production, then evolving it based on real failures and usage
Experience building shared primitives adopted by multiple teams
Experience making deliberate choices about abstraction boundaries and developer experience
Experience owning backend or distributed systems with critical scaling and reliability requirements
Ability to begin design from user-experience requirements, including latency, quality, privacy, and trust
Ability to create alignment across product, ML, client, and infrastructure teams
Ability to communicate architecture and tradeoffs clearly and drive decisions to closure
Exceptional depth in backend and platform systems
Ability to learn adjacent areas quickly
Demonstrated architecture-level ownership
Ability to work on-site in the Bay Area/San Francisco, or willingness to relocate; remote-only and monthly-travel options are presented in the application form
Legal authorization to work in the United States is requested in the application form

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity on employee-friendly terms, including extended exercise windows and a combination of ISOs and RSUs
Relocation assistance
H1B, O1, EB1, L1, STEM OPT, and other sponsorship support when an offer is made, with reasonable efforts through an immigration law firm
Fair and accessible interview process with accommodations or adjustments available