R&D Machine Learning Scientist
Eight Sleep
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Job Description
Join Eight Sleep, the world's first sleep fitness company, on a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. As an R&D Machine Learning Scientist, you'll play a critical role in transforming sensor data into personalized intelligent health & fitness experiences. You will work with heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep metrics, and more to unlock new meaningful metrics that will induce behavior change for better sleep and better health. Work closely with a cross-functional R&D and production team to prototype and ship solutions.
You will contribute to projects such as advancing the Pod’s adaptive thermoregulation system through reinforcement learning and closed-loop control, and developing a multimodal health foundation model. You will also build a high-fidelity physiological simulator.
Eight Sleep offers equitable compensation with periodic equity refreshments, a free Eight Sleep Pod, and standard benefits. This is a great opportunity to create cutting-edge technology, collaborate with world-class talent, and help shape a future where sleep is a powerful tool for living better.
Responsibilities
- Advance the Pod’s adaptive thermoregulation system
- 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
- Build a high-fidelity physiological simulator that models how daily behaviors ripple into tonight’s sleep and tomorrow’s readiness
Requirements
- 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)
Visa Policy
Eight Sleep isn't offering any visa sponsorship support at this time.
Benefits
- Equity participation
- Periodic equity refreshments
- Free Eight Sleep Pod
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