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Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)

Eight Sleep

On-siteSan Francisco, CAmidPosted 12h ago

Job description

  • We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to build and ship consumer-facing AI systems that power personalization, coaching, and next-generation “sleep intelligence.”

  • You’ll work across data, modeling, product, and engineering to translate research into reliable, measurable improvements for members

  • Build and deploy ML models that improve sleep experiences through personalization, prediction, and behavior understanding (e.g., readiness forecasting, event detection, individualized recommendations)

  • Apply and adapt foundation-model capabilities to real product workflows (LLM + tools/RAG, multimodal modeling, policy learning), including MCP-style integrations where helpful

  • Develop user behavior models that connect longitudinal signals (sleep, environment, routines) to actionable interventions - grounded in robust experimentation and measurement

  • Design evaluation strategies (offline metrics, slice-based analysis, calibration, reliability, fairness) and partner with Product to run high-quality online experiments

  • Productionize models: scalable training/inference pipelines, model monitoring, drift detection, alerting, and continuous improvement loops

  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, Mobile, Backend, Clinical) to scope requirements and ship high-impact features

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO

  • Paid parental leave

  • Comprehensive medical insurance

  • Your own Pod

  • Pet-friendly offices

  • Equity participation & periodic refreshes

  • Fast career growth & salary progression

  • Weekly fitness classes in our offices

  • Work directly with founders and executives

  • 5 in-person offices in NYC, Boston, SF, Shenzhen and Milan- This role is ideal for someone who loves end-to-end ownership: from problem framing → prototyping → offline evaluation → online experimentation → production deployment → iteration

  • Fluency with data tooling (SQL, distributed compute such as Spark/Ray, and cloud storage/compute)

  • Strong product sense: you can translate ambiguous goals into measurable outcomes and iterate quickly with stakeholders

  • Hands-on experience with large-scale model training and evaluation (PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX), and strong Python engineering practices

  • Experience with personalization systems (ranking/recommendations, segmentation, lifecycle modeling, propensity/behavior modeling, causal/experiment-aware thinking)

  • Strong ML fundamentals across supervised learning, sequence/time-series modeling, and modern deep learning

  • 2+ years building ML systems in production, ideally for consumer-facing products

  • Experience applying LLMs/foundation models to product features (tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, guardrails, evals)

  • Experience with privacy-preserving approaches (on-device/federated learning, differential privacy, data minimization)

  • Experience with multimodal data (sensor signals + context) and/or health/biometrics data

  • Experience designing experimentation frameworks or causal inference approaches for personalization