Eight Sleep
Director of Mechanical Engineering
San Francisco · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringSensorsAvidLeadershipCollaborationTolerance AnalysisActuators
About the role
- Provide technical leadership on cross-functional trade-offs and architectural decisions spanning fields such as thermals, fluids, mechanisms, and sensing.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Every role at Eight Sleep is a chance to create cutting-edge technology, collaborate with world-class talent, and help shape a future where sleep isn't passive - it's a powerful tool for living better.
- If you're tired of the ordinary and driven to build at the edge of what's possible, this is your moment.
- Join us and lead the movement that's transforming how the world sleeps and what we're all capable of when we wake up.
- We're here to build fast, push limits, and deliver without compromise.
Requirements
- Track record of launching products successfully under aggressive timelines with lean teams.
- Proficiency with thermal engineering, fluid systems, actuators, and soft goods is highly desirable.
- Experience scaling products to high volume production in Asia, as well as expertise in DFM/DFA, tolerance analysis, and GD&T.
- Willingness and ability to travel to China as needed.
Compensation
- Equitable compensation and continuous equity investment
Benefits
- As the world's first sleep fitness company, we're redefining what it means to be well-rested and building the most advanced hardware, software, and AI technology to make it possible.
- We are trusted by high performers, professional athletes, and health-conscious consumers in over 30 countries worldwide.
- Equitable compensation and continuous equity investment
- We extend equity participation to every full-time team member, recognizing and rewarding your direct contributions to our success.
- This includes periodic equity refreshments based on performance, ensuring that as Eight Sleep grows and succeeds, so do you - perfectly aligning your achievements with the broader triumphs of the company.
- Your own Pod - and other great benefits
Company info
- Lunch in the SF office 5 days a week
- Full access to health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
- Supplemental life insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Commuter benefits to ease your daily commute
- Paid parental leave
- Shape and execute the hardware product roadmap with stakeholders across the company
- Hire and coach talented engineers who are committed to our mission.
- We operate with intensity because our mission demands it.
- At Eight Sleep, we're on a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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