Member of Technical Staff, Founding Engineer

Type: Full-time

About Hussh: Hussh is an AI-first research, machine-learning, and product organization. We are building Private Agent One: a private personal AI agent — personal superintelligence that works for one human, and one human only. The architecture is the point: the human owns their information, controls it, and shares it only by explicit consent, through our PCHP (Personal Consent Handshake Protocol). No surveillance model. No ads against the user. The human is the customer, never the product. We also run a permanent-capital asset-management business (Fund A). The lab works from Kirkland, WA, with research partnerships at IIT Kharagpur and Stony Brook's AI3 institute. We are founder-funded. You will work directly with the founder and the founding team — there is no layer between you and the hardest problems.

The role: You are the engineer who does both halves of the hardest job in a young lab: you build the core platform, and you take it into the real world and make it work there. Half of this role is core platform and tooling — the agent runtime, the consent-gated data plane, identity and trust primitives, and the developer infrastructure every other engineer at Hussh will build on. The other half is forward-deployed: you embed with the people who use Private Agent One — individuals, family offices, advisors, partners — understand their actual problem in the room, build the solution with them, ship it on their infrastructure and ours, and stay until it works. Then you carry the field's truth home and turn one-off deployments into platform, so the second deployment of anything is boring. There is no "throw it over the wall" here, in either direction. You own problems end to end: discovery, scoping, design, build, deployment, operation, and the fix at 3 a.m.

Base salary: $240,000–$340,000 USD per year, plus a founding equity grant (4-year vest). Where you land in the range depends on experience and demonstrated scale. Founding titles are permanent: "Founding Engineer" is a fact about when you showed up, and no future re-leveling takes it away.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage. A 401(k) plan. Employer-matched contributions to Trump Accounts. Support for continuing education, retooling, and retraining — including AI courses, which we actively encourage. Above all: you will work with the latest AI technologies every day, and the expectation — for engineers and non-engineers alike — is to become expert in using them, running evals on your own work until it reaches an A+ standard. Benefits are subject to the terms of the applicable plans and to eligibility requirements, in accordance with federal and state law.

How to apply: Apply here on LinkedIn with your resume and a short note answering one question: tell us about a system you deployed with a real customer that almost failed — what you did in the room, and how it ended, in numbers if you have them. We read every note ourselves. Hussh is an equal opportunity employer. We hire on merit, competence, and qualifications, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. To be considered — the full application: Apply here on LinkedIn, AND send the following to with the subject line: (Your Full Name) — (Role Title). (1) Your answers to the three questions below — short, specific, numbers where you have them. (2) Your profile packet: your portfolio of work and accomplishments, your resume, and a cover letter. Applications without the email packet are not considered. 1. Tell us about the hardest system you shipped end-to-end — your role, the constraint that nearly killed it, and the metric that proved it worked. 2. Our agents act only with human approval. Describe a time you built a guardrail, approval step, or undo into a product — what it prevented, and what it cost in speed. 3. Give a number you owned — latency, cost, uptime, or conversion: where it started, where you took it, and how.