Manager of Mechanical Engineering, Eight Sleep
$225-300k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
Smart mattress for sleep fitness
Open for applications
Smart mattress for sleep fitness
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$225-300k
+ Equity
More information about location
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fuel human potential through optimal sleep.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience developing complex electromechanical systems, ideally high-volume consumer hardware
- Track record of launching products successfully under aggressive timelines with lean teams, including scaling products to high volume production in Asia (tooling, build management - EVT, DVT, PVT - test tool development, and testing)
- Desire to be technically engaged in the details while managing the team. Deep knowledge of injection molding, electronics/sensor integration, and mechanism design. Proficiency with thermal engineering, fluid systems, actuators, and soft goods is highly desirable
- Experience leading early stage product development efforts, including concept definition, feasibility prototyping, and industrial design
- Demonstrated ability to hire and manage mechanical engineers, with an appetite to build and develop a team over time
- BSME or equivalent
- Willingness and ability to travel to China as needed
- Ability to work from our SF office in alignment with team expectations
- The ideal candidate will have significant experience launching successful products from concept through to production
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a leader for our mechanical/product design engineering team in San Francisco
- You'll oversee development of highly complex electromechanical products, including our flagship product (the Pod) as well as an ambitious roadmap of brand new products that don't yet exist
- This role will report to the Chief Product Officer
- This is a player-coach leadership role - you will be the technical anchor for mechanical execution while building and leading a small team
- Lead all aspects of mechanical engineering execution across the full development cycle:
- Provide technical leadership and direction on cross-functional trade-offs and architectural decisions spanning fields such as thermals, fluids, mechanisms, and sensing
- Manage mechanical, soft goods, and prototype & test engineers
- Travel to Asia to ensure teams and suppliers are delivering successfully against goals
- Ensure hardware products meet high standards of performance, user experience, and quality
- Shape and execute the hardware product roadmap with stakeholders across the company:
- Work with the Chief Product Officer and executive team to define the hardware product roadmap and features
- Collaborate with stakeholders across electrical engineering, software engineering, sensing and clinical, operations, marketing, and finance to develop and launch products successfully
- Grow and manage a world-class engineering team:
- Hire and coach talented engineers who can move fast and are committed to our mission
- Foster a culture of excellence and collaboration
- Implement systems and processes to ensure the team is operating at peak efficiency, including design reviews and phase gates
- Provide feedback, coaching, and performance management to help the team consistently deliver
Our take
The last decade has seen a major uptick in the number of start-ups 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; building out more technology through additional products and acquisitions, and expanding internationally. It's seeing great success too, having recently raised $50M, brining its valuation up to $1.5B.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2026
$50m
LATE VC
Aug 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $312.2m
Company benefits
- Equity participation & periodic refreshes
- Fast career growth & salary progression
- Flexible PTO
- Weekly fitness classes in our offices
- Paid parental leave
- Comprehensive medical insurance
- Your own Pod
- Pet-friendly offices
- Work directly with founders and executives
- 5 in-person offices in NYC, Boston, SF, Shenzhen and Milan
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Matteo Franceschetti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Eight Sleep in 2014, Matteo was a co-chair at FWD.us, a Network Partner at Microsoft BizSpark and a Mentor at TechStars.
Massimo Andreasi Bassi
(Co-Founder & CTO)Massimo was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Upsight, CEO at Staq, and VP of R&D at DomainsBot.
Alexandra Zatarain
(Co-Founder & VP of Brand & Marketing)Prior to Eight Sleep, Alexandra served as a Mentor, offering marketing experience, for various start-ups, academic institutions, and Wall Street organizations.
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