R&D Data Scientist, Eight Sleep
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3 days a week in office
Smart mattress for sleep fitness
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Smart mattress for sleep fitness
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To fuel human potential through optimal sleep.
Role
Who you are
- Our employees report working up to 60 hours per week. If you want to be challenged and pushed harder than ever before, we invite you to apply
- That is why Eight Sleep is looking for a R&D Data Scientist who has experience working with human physiology data, analyzing data from large human-research studies, and working on biometric insights for new features
- This position is ideal for a scientist looking to work with a highly collaborative and scientifically rigorous team
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physiology, or similar
- 2 years of work experience as a Data Scientist, including 1+ years of human physiology data analysis in wearables
- Minimum 2 years coding experience in Python or R; if in R, must be willing to learn Python
- Must be able to run common statistical tests (i.e. t-tests, ANOVA, descriptive statistics, multiple regression, Bland-altman plots, MAE, ME, SEE, descriptive statistics) in Python/R
- Adept at data visualization (plotly, seaborn, matplotlib, etc) & communicate findings cross-functionally
- 1+ years of supervised and unsupervised machine learning experience: e.g. regression (ridge, lasso, GAMs, polynomial, smoothing splines, logistic, LDA, QDA, KNN), K-means clustering, PCA, SVMs, tree-based models
- Superior communications skills, excellent time management & organizational skills, high attention to detail, and ability to quickly adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with deploying algorithms into production
- Proficient in SQL and Github
What the job involves
- At Eight Sleep, we have Kobe Bryant’s mamba mentality - we always aim to be at the best 1% of what we do
- The R&D Data Scientist will be responsible for literature review for data analysis, experimental design for A/B testing based on analyses, exploratory data analysis for new features, insight generation for members, data analysis of novel R&D experiments, and potentially, co-writing white papers and blog posts (see here for examples)
- The research studies at Eight Sleep will include internal product validation, new prototype testing, new feature development, and large-scale, external validation studies
- This role will report to the Director of Science & Clinical Research at Eight Sleep, on the Research & Development team
- Literature review & experimental design for new features, data analysis, and experiments:
- Ability to review the literature for understanding of physiological changes with temperature regulation and sleep, new exploratory analyses and features
- Competent at experimental design and how to test new features or insights in beta testing, including determining sample sizes required and identifying go/no-go criteria
- Ability to parse, time-align, and manage data from multiple sources for data analyses
- Data analysis of our R&D studies. This may include validation studies as well as experimental analyses for new features
- Exploratory analyses for new feature generation of current datasets. Ability to think abstractly and openly about a dataset and to uncover key insights from big data
- You will co-write publications, including blog posts, white papers, and peer-reviewed publications
- Use machine learning techniques to develop new insights for members that link Pod temperature to physiological changes during sleep (e.g. impact of Pod temperature of sleep stages and HR, HRV, etc)
- Includes working cross functionally with product, marketing, and software teams
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 7 rounds)
Aug 2021
$86m
SERIES C
Nov 2019
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $162.1m
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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