Distinguished Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) match

AI tokens

Gym membership

Family-friendly policy

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. in Kirkland, WA is seeking a senior engineer to own a hard technical boundary across teams and drive tangible architectural improvements.

You will select a consequential system problem, build a reference solution with the founder/CTO, and lead rigorous design reviews while mentoring senior engineers. You will deliver a narrow mandate with visible progress in your first 90 days, and you’ll work in an office-based, five-days-a-week environment with equity, a market-aligned

Qualifications

• Exceptional technical depth with broad impact behind it, through shipped systems or research.
• You can give a specific account of what you changed and how you know.
• You work across team boundaries where you have no authority.
• Evidence of engineers who grew because of you.

Responsibilities

• Choose a consequential systems problem with the founder and CTO, build a reference solution and lead rigorous design reviews.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve architecture across the product.
• Keep the mandate narrow enough to produce visible progress.
• Present an architectural disagreement you resolved and explain the evidence, decision and long-term consequences.

Skills

Technical depth

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Architecture design

Job description

You take responsibility for a hard technical boundary that spans teams, and you earn influence through judgement, evidence and the people you help grow rather than through position. A senior title elsewhere is useful context; what matters is a clear account of what you actually changed.

The work:

Choose a consequential systems problem with the founder and CTO, build a reference solution and lead rigorous design reviews. Mentor senior engineers and improve architecture across the product. Keep the mandate narrow enough to produce visible progress.

What good looks like:

In your first 90 days, resolve one cross-stack problem and leave behind a working artifact, measurements and a team able to continue the work.

Evidence we look for:

Bring exceptional technical depth and evidence of broad impact through shipped systems or research. A senior title elsewhere is useful context, not a substitute for a clear account of your contribution.

Required:

• Exceptional technical depth with broad impact behind it, through shipped systems or research
• You can give a specific account of what you changed and how you know
• You work across team boundaries where you have no authority
• Evidence of engineers who grew because of you

Nice to have:

• You have owned an architecture across multiple product generations
• Public technical writing or talks
• Both research and production engineering experience

The exercise:

Present an architectural disagreement you resolved and explain the evidence, decision and long-term consequences.

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.