Chief Scientist

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) match

Health, dental, vision

Gym membership

Remote-friendly

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking a senior researcher to lead initiatives on efficient models, continual learning, planning and privacy, working with product and systems leaders to define hypotheses and evaluation baselines.

You will establish reproducible baselines, mentor researchers, and ensure responsible handling of user data and collaboration rights, while shaping the publication process around robust experiments and transparent reporting.

Qualifications

• A sustained record of original research with rigorous experiments.
• Mentored researchers and named outcomes.
• Ability to set up honest evaluation and defend research choices.

Responsibilities

• Lead research in efficient models, continual learning, planning and privacy.
• Establish reproducible baselines and independent evaluation.
• Collaborate with product and systems leaders on hypotheses and compute decisions.

Skills

Original research

Mentorship

Experiment design

Honest evaluation

Hypothesis evaluation

Job description

You turn the ambition of personal intelligence into questions that can be answered honestly, and connect foundational research to capabilities a person can understand and control. You will lead work on efficient models, continual learning, planning, privacy and human collaboration, and establish the reproducible baselines and independent evaluation that keep the rest of us truthful.

The work:

Lead research in efficient models, continual learning, planning, privacy and human collaboration. Establish reproducible baselines, independent evaluation and a publication process that respects user data and collaborators' rights. Work directly with product and systems leaders on which hypotheses deserve compute.

What good looks like:

In your first 90 days, establish three bounded research programs, reproduce their baselines and propose explicit continuation or stop criteria.

Evidence we look for:

Bring a sustained record of original research, rigorous experiments and mentorship. A doctorate or equivalent research contribution is relevant; the strength of your reasoning matters more than an institution's name.

Required:

• A sustained record of original research, with rigorous experiments behind it
• You have mentored researchers, and can name what they went on to do
• You set up evaluation that is honest about negative results rather than optimised to look good
• You can choose which questions are worth years, and defend the choice

Nice to have:

• A doctorate, though the strength of your reasoning matters more than the institution
• Efficient models, continual learning, or privacy-preserving machine learning specifically
• You have run a research group as well as done research

The exercise:

Present one important result, its strongest alternative explanation and an experiment that could disprove your current thesis.

How we work:

We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States, India and the UAE. We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay:

We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity:

Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission:

An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind:

Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching:

A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens:

A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things:

A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family:

We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals:

Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.