Faculty Research Fellow

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

AI tokens

401(k) with company match

Gym membership

Comprehensive health plan

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. seeks a research-oriented professional to co-design a bounded research agenda with an internal technical owner.

You will mentor researchers, review experiments, and help craft publishable findings while aligning time commitments, permissions, IP, data access and publication terms before the appointment begins. Within 90 days, you will deliver a research plan, establish a baseline, and complete one substantive technical review.

Qualifications

• Active research program in systems/architecture/security/AI/HCI
• Interest in scientific contribution and practical system insights
• University appointment you intend to keep
• Willingness to test ideas against production reality

Responsibilities

• Co-design a bounded research agenda with an internal technical owner
• Mentor researchers, review experiments, create publishable findings
• Agree time commitments, IP, data access and publication terms before appointment
• Within 90 days, deliver a research plan, establish a baseline, and complete one substantive technical review
• Propose a laboratory research question with useful outcomes even if the hypothesis is disproved
• Work across our offices in Kirkland, WA and globally in a remote-friendly environment

Skills

Active research program

Interest in scientific contribution

Mentorship

Experiment review

Production reality testing

Education

University appointment you intend to keep

Job description

The work:

Co-design a bounded research agenda with an internal technical owner. Mentor researchers, review experiments and help create publishable findings. Agree time commitments, institutional permissions, conflicts, IP, data access and publication arrangements before the appointment begins.

What good looks like:

Within the first 90 days of the agreed appointment, produce a research plan, a baseline and one substantive technical review.

Evidence we look for:

Bring an active research program relevant to systems, architecture, security, AI or human-computer interaction. Show interest in both scientific contribution and what a working system teaches us.

Required:

• An active research program relevant to systems, architecture, security, AI, or human-computer interaction
• Interest in both the scientific contribution and what a working system demands
• A university appointment you intend to keep
• Willingness to have your ideas tested against production reality

Nice to have:

• Prior industry collaboration that produced something real
• Students who might work alongside the project
• A publication record in a relevant venue

The exercise:

Propose a question your laboratory could investigate that produces a useful result even if the original hypothesis is disproved.

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.