Eight Sleep · 2 months ago
Machine Learning Research Scientist (Health & Sensing)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expEight Sleep is a pioneering company dedicated to transforming sleep through innovative technology. The Machine Learning Research Scientist will utilize AI and machine learning to analyze sensor data, developing personalized health and fitness experiences to improve sleep quality and health outcomes.
Consumer Electronics
Responsibilities
Advance the Pod’s adaptive thermoregulation system - the “autopilot” system that continuously learns and reacts to micro-events like restlessness or awakenings. Design policies that optimize comfort and sleep quality in real time through reinforcement learning and closed-loop control
Develop a multimodal health foundation model that integrates physiology and environmental context - learning from Pod signals, wearable sensors, and contextual data - powered by one billion+ hours of sleep data at Eight Sleep
Build a high-fidelity physiological simulator that models how daily behaviors ripple into tonight’s sleep and tomorrow’s readiness. This initiative aims to create a non-invasive, always-on model of healthy aging powered by Pod biosignals and continuous physiological data
Qualification
Required
Expertise in at least one area of machine learning and artificial intelligence (e.g., self-supervised learning, multi-modal ML, model optimization, NLP, LLM)
Strong interest in applying machine learning to health related problems and data
Experience using a programming language (Python, C/C++ etc.) to manipulate data, draw insights from large data sets, and train machine learning models
3+ years of practical experience applying ML to solve real-world problems or relevant quantitative and qualitative research and analytics experience
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field with a notable publication record; or BS/MS with publications at top venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, INTERSPEECH)
Benefits
Equitable Compensation And Continuous Equity Investment
Your Own Pod - And Other Great Benefits
Company
Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company. Our mission is to fuel human potential through optimal sleep.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Matteo Franceschetti
Co-Founder & CEO
Nicolas C.
Chief Financial Officer
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