Photonics & High-Speed Interconnects Scientist

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

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AI tokens

Gym membership

Health benefits

Life and disability insurance

Referral bonuses

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. seeks a research-minded engineer to evaluate whether emerging interconnect technologies can improve future personal or connected compute within realistic cost and power limits.

You will compare optical and electrical links, study packaging, conversion overhead, reliability, and manufacturability with specialist partners, keeping the work tied to a measurable bottleneck and a plausible product-scale use case.

Qualifications

• Research expertise in photonics, high-speed interconnects, applied physics, or closely related engineering.
• Strong experimental judgement: you design the experiment that would falsify your hypothesis.
• You can explain a physical limit to people who will make a product decision on it.
• Intellectual honesty about cost and power realities rather than laboratory conditions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate optical links or other advanced interconnect approaches against electrical baselines.
• Study packaging, conversion overhead, reliability and manufacturability with specialist partners.
• Keep the research tied to a measured bottleneck and a plausible product-scale use case.
• Create experiments and documents that clearly differentiate feasibility from hype.

Skills

Research expertise

Experimental judgement

Explain physical limits

Cost and power awareness

Job description

HushOne, Inc. seeks a research-minded engineer to evaluate whether emerging interconnect technologies can improve future personal or connected compute within realistic cost and power limits.

You will compare optical and electrical links, study packaging, conversion overhead, reliability, and manufacturability with specialist partners, keeping the work tied to a measurable bottleneck and a plausible product-scale use case.