Engineering Intern and Apprentice

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company matching

Gym membership

Remote-friendly around family

Referral program

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. invites motivated learners to join a paid placement, building something useful alongside experienced engineers, owning a bounded contribution with close mentorship. You’ll work on a defined project, learn to test changes, review evidence and explain tradeoffs.

We hire across the United States and the UAE, with a Kirkland, WA base. We are office-first (five days a week) but provide remote-friendly options for family, and equity or stock-based rewards when moving to full-time roles.

Qualifications

• Solid fundamentals in your chosen field.
• Curiosity, and evidence that you build and finish things.
• Something you made that we can review.
• You ask questions early rather than getting stuck.

Responsibilities

• Show a project and explain one difficult problem you solved.
• Describe what you would improve with another week.

Skills

Solid fundamentals

Curiosity

Portfolio project

Ask questions early

Job description

You learn by building something useful alongside experienced engineers, owning a bounded contribution with close mentorship. There is no single route in: universities, vocational programs, open-source communities and independent study all count, and we have hired from all of them.

The work:

Work on a defined systems, hardware, application or tooling project. Learn to test changes, review evidence and explain tradeoffs. Receive regular feedback and collaborate with the people who will use or maintain your work.

What good looks like:

By the end of the agreed paid placement, ship a reviewed contribution with tests or validation appropriate to the work and a clear handoff.

Evidence we look for:

Bring solid fundamentals, curiosity and evidence that you build and learn. Applicants may come through universities, vocational programs, open-source communities or independent study.

Required:

• Solid fundamentals in whatever you have chosen to learn
• Curiosity, and evidence that you build and finish things
• Something you made that we can look at, however small
• You ask questions early rather than getting quietly stuck

Nice to have:

• Open-source contributions
• A project you took further than the assignment required
• Experience teaching somebody else what you learned

The exercise:

Show a project, explain one difficult problem you solved and describe what you would improve with another week.

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.