Doctoral Research Intern

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

AI tokens

Gym membership

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. seeks a highly capable researcher to design and execute a focused placement project in systems, hardware, security, learning, or human–computer interaction. You will agree objectives, evaluation criteria, and publication expectations with a named mentor, and deliver a reproducible artifact.

The role emphasizes integrity, collaboration, and clear written communication, with options for remote-friendly arrangements and a compensation that meets local market rates.

Qualifications

• Doctoral-level research preparation or equivalent advanced track.
• Ability to articulate ideas clearly in writing.
• Honesty about results, including non-ideal outcomes.
• You prefer collaboration over solo work by default.

Responsibilities

• Discuss a research project you know deeply and propose a smaller payback experiment.
• Agree objectives, evaluation criteria and publication expectations early.
• Participate in technical reviews and leave a reproducible artifact for the team.

Skills

Doctoral-level research prep

Clear writing

Integrity about results

Collaborative work style

Job description

You use your research depth on a question that matters to a real user, in a scoped project with a named mentor and realistic resources. We would rather give you one well-defined problem and the support to answer it properly than a broad brief and no time.

The work: Develop an experiment in systems, hardware, security, learning or human interaction. Agree research objectives, evaluation and publication expectations early. Participate in technical reviews and leave a reproducible artifact the team can continue using.

What good looks like: By the end of the agreed paid placement, deliver a tested result, documented code or methods and a presentation that explains the limitations.

Evidence we look for: Bring doctoral-level research preparation or an equivalent advanced research track appropriate to the project. We value clear thinking, integrity and collaboration alongside technical depth.

Required:

• Doctoral-level research preparation, or an equivalent advanced research track suited to the project
• Clear thinking you can demonstrate in writing
• Integrity about results, including inconvenient ones
• You collaborate rather than working alone by default

Nice to have:

• Published or submitted work
• Engineering skills alongside the research
• A specific interest in personal or private computing

The exercise: Discuss a research project you know deeply and propose a smaller experiment that would resolve its largest uncertainty.

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.