Computer Architecture and Hardware Software Co Design Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Annual bonus

401(k) match

Health insurance

Gym membership

Remote-friendly around family

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. seeks an architect to profile representative AI workloads across inference, retrieval and training, modeling compute, bandwidth, capacity and energy limits.

You will compare components before proposing hardware, and collaborate with compiler and silicon teams to evaluate interfaces early, delivering actionable workload-driven conclusions.

Qualifications

• Evidence of computer architecture expertise (research, silicon, prototypes, or major performance result).
• Ability to move fluently between measurements, simulators and real application behavior.
• Able to tell workload-driven conclusions from benchmark-driven ones.
• Know when a hardware change is not worth pursuing.

Responsibilities

• Profile representative inference, retrieval, training and agent workloads.
• Model compute, bandwidth, capacity and energy limits.
• Compare existing components before proposing specialized hardware; collaborate with compiler and silicon teams.
• Explain when additional accelerator throughput would fail to improve a memory-bound workload.

Skills

Computer architecture

Measurements

Simulators

Workloads

Tools

Benchmarking tools

Job description

You find out which hardware choices actually improve personal intelligence, by connecting real agent workloads to memory systems, accelerators and the software that uses them. The value of this role is in the measurement: most architectural intuition about AI workloads is a year out of date, and yours will be built from what our workloads really do.

The work:

Profile representative inference, retrieval, training and agent workloads. Model compute, bandwidth, capacity and energy limits. Compare existing components before proposing specialized hardware, and partner with compiler and silicon teams on interfaces that can be evaluated early.

What good looks like:

In your first 90 days, deliver a reproducible workload characterization and a quantified architecture recommendation with sensitivity analysis.

Evidence we look for:

Bring computer architecture expertise and an ability to move between measurements, simulators and application behavior. Evidence may include research, silicon, systems prototypes or major performance work.

Required:

• Computer architecture expertise with evidence behind it: research, silicon, prototypes, or a major performance result
• You move fluently between measurements, simulators and real application behaviour
• You can tell a workload-driven conclusion from a benchmark-driven one
• You will say when the honest answer is that a hardware change is not worth it

Nice to have:

• Memory-system or accelerator design specifically
• You have influenced a shipped silicon decision
• Published architecture research

The exercise:

Explain when additional accelerator arithmetic throughput would fail to improve a memory-bound household workload.

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 rather 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.