Senior Firmware Engineer
Eight Sleep5 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Bring up and implement sensor technologies for health-monitoring products.
- Collaborate with hardware teams on prototyping, efficient designs, and production-hardware implementation.
- Lead improvements to firmware development standards and tooling for testing and deployment.
- Work with the manufacturing team in China to develop tests and deliver high-quality products on time.
- Develop and maintain firmware deployed across the existing Pod fleet.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on firmware in C/C++, with client or test tooling in Python or Node.js.
- Experience developing for compute-constrained and low-memory environments.
- Ability to create peripheral drivers and communication protocols including UART, I2C, SPI, and USB, with knowledge of DMA.
- Experience launching and maintaining large fleets of devices, monitoring telemetry, and performing OTA firmware updates.
- Ability to read and interpret hardware datasheets and schematics for hardware bring-up and debugging.
- Familiarity with logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to China.
- Preferred experience with bare-metal systems, low-level task management, and environments without a traditional RTOS.
- Preferred expertise in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi communication standards, automated testing, observability, and embedded security practices.
Benefits
- Pod provided to all full-time employees
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- 100% employer contribution for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Fully distributed workforce
- Role ownership and uncapped growth opportunities
- Regular travel to China is required
About Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep builds the Pod, a smart mattress system that controls temperature, elevation, and wake-up and provides sleep analytics for consumers and athletes. The company sells hardware directly online with a companion app and optional membership for personalized insights and automations. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it is privately held and sells in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, Australia, the UAE, Mexico, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia.