Semiconductor and Computer Partnerships Lead

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Annual performance bonus

Gym membership

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking a proactive partnerships professional to develop and manage technical collaborations with semiconductor and hardware vendors.

You will align partner roadmaps, evaluation access and terms with our hardware team, turning conversations into concrete engineering work with clear owners and acceptance criteria. In the first months, you will map key partners, drive technical evaluations, and prepare collaboration proposals.

Qualifications

• Technical partnership experience with semiconductor or hardware partners
• Sufficient systems fluency to understand real integration limits
• Evidence of outcomes from relationships you helped build

Responsibilities

• Develop technical relationships with chip, computer, memory, networking and manufacturing companies
• Align roadmaps, evaluation access, support and commercial terms with hardware team
• Turn promising discussions into scoped engineering work with owners and acceptance criteria

Skills

Technical partnership

Systems fluency

Relationship outcomes

Job description

You bring the best available components and engineering partners into one coherent personal-computing product. That means being technical enough to know when a supplier's roadmap will not survive contact with our requirements, and commercial enough to build the relationship anyway. We are small, so we will rarely be anyone's largest customer, and the partnerships we get are the ones somebody earned on the merits of the work.

The work: Develop technical relationships with chip, computer, memory, networking and manufacturing companies. Align roadmaps, evaluation access, support and commercial terms with the hardware team. Turn promising discussions into scoped engineering work with owners and acceptance criteria.

What good looks like: In your first 90 days, deliver a partner map, two substantive technical evaluations and one decision-ready collaboration proposal.

Evidence we look for: Bring technical partnership experience and enough systems fluency to understand real integration limits. Show outcomes from relationships you helped build, not only the names of companies you know.

Required:

• Technical partnership experience with semiconductor or hardware partners
• Enough systems fluency to understand real integration limits rather than repeating a datasheet
• Outcomes from relationships you helped build, not a list of logos
• You can hold a supplier to a commitment without losing the relationship

Nice to have:

• Existing relationships with silicon vendors or ODMs
• An engineering background
• You have negotiated a supply agreement at small volumes

The exercise: Structure a reference-device collaboration where responsibilities for firmware, security patches, warranty and repair must be explicit.

How we work: This role is customer-facing, so it is remote-friendly by default and you can be based in any major city with strong domestic and international airport connections in the United States, India and the UAE. Our garages are in Kirkland, WA; Dubai, Dubai, and you are welcome in any of them. What matters is being where the customer is.

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.