Senior Firmware Engineer, Eight Sleep
$180-210k
Offers equity
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Smart mattress for sleep fitness
Open for applications
Smart mattress for sleep fitness
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
Offers equity
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To fuel human potential through optimal sleep.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Expertise: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on firmware in C/C++ and client or test tooling in Python or NodeJS
- Advanced Technical Skills: Proficiency in developing for compute-constrained and low-memory environments. Skilled in creating peripheral drivers and communication protocols (UART, I2C, SPI, USB), and knowledgeable in DMA
- Shipping at Scale: Have launched and maintained large fleets of devices, with experience in monitoring telemetry, and OTA firmware updates
- Hardware Acumen: Ability to read and interpret data sheets and schematics for hardware bring-up and debugging. Familiarity with logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
- Adaptive Problem Solver: A fast-paced and iterative approach to tackling complex problems
Desirable
- Proficient with bare metal systems, low level task management, and environments without traditional RTOS
- Expertise in wireless communication standards (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi)
- Expertise in automated testing and observability
- Deep understanding of embedded security practices
What the job involves
- Join our team as a Sr Firmware Engineer to help us bring current and next generations of Pod hardware to life
- You'll be a part of a small team designing and implementing solutions with high levels of autonomy to bring our members better sleep
- Your work will go directly to our fleet of existing Pods with low friction and direct impact to the business
- We are a fast moving and fast growing company, and we embrace individuals with a growth mindset and strong desire to help us achieve our mission: Improving people's lives through optimal sleep
- Pioneer Cutting-Edge Technology: Bring-up and implement cutting edge sensor technologies, bringing them into our products to enable the future of health monitoring
- Ownership and Drive: Collaborate with hardware teams to guide prototyping, drive efficient designs, as well as implementation on production hardware
- Innovate and Elevate: Lead the transformation of our firmware development landscape, pioneering advanced standards and state-of-the-art tooling that revolutionize our testing and deployment processes
- Global Collaboration and Support: Work closely with our manufacturing team in China to develop tests and deliver high quality products on time
- Effective Remote Communication: Thrive in an in person and remote work environment, ensuring clear and impactful communication
Our take
The last decade has seen a major uptick in the number of startups and companies dedicated to supporting consumers to build good health habits, typically around food and fitness. That enthusiasm is now quite rightly being extended to how we sleep.
Eight Sleep makes “smart” mattresses and mattress covers (for regular mattresses) that use machine learning and other artificial intelligence-based algorithms to improve your sleep both by changing temperature and monitoring other physical parameters to provide an overall picture of your health.
The company is focused on two levers for growth. First, building out more technology through additional products and acquisitions, exemplified by the introduction of Span Health’s fitness-tracking app. Secondly, international expansion in Europe, where it has got off to an impressive start in the UK.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Aug 2021
$86m
SERIES C
Total funding: $262.1m
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Matteo Franceschetti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded and led GIR (acquired in 2014) and Global Investment (acquired 2011).
Massimo Andreasi Bassi
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Upsight. Also founded Staq in 2012. Before that, worked as VP of R&D for DomainsBot.
Alexandra Zatarain
(Co-Founder & VP of Brand & Marketing)Prior to Eight Sleep, served as a Mentor, offering marketing experience, for various startups, academic institutions, and Wall Street organizations.
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