ML Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Founding ML Research Engineer role at Willow to build personalization and context-aware ML systems for a voice-first productivity app.
Responsibilities
- You’ll help build systems for:
- 1. Personal writing and behavior models that learn from edits, preferences, workflows, tone, formatting, and user actions
- 2. Intent-to-action systems that turn rough user intent into high-quality execution
- 3. Multimodal context understanding across voice, screenshots, app state, selected text, workflows, and historical behavior
- 4. Retrieval and memory systems that understand what context matters in a given moment
Qualifications
- Strong applied ML or research engineering ability
- Experience with LLMs, VLMs, agents, speech, personalization systems, retrieval, or multimodal systems
- Strong product intuition and taste
Skills
Required:Applied ML / Research engineeringLLMs / VLMs / agents / speech / multimodal systemsProduct intuition and taste
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Willow
The voice interface replacing your keyboard
Willow is an AI dictation app that lets you type with your voice. Built to 4x the productivity of anyone spending too much time on email, docs, and AI prompting workflows. We’re Mac-only for now. You can try it free at WillowVoice.com
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