Engineering Manager, Mechanical

How You’ll Contribute

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, from concept definition and feasibility prototyping through EVT, DVT, PVT, and ramp.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and direction on cross-functional trade-offs and architectural decisions spanning fields such as thermals, fluids, mechanisms, and sensing.
• Ensure hardware products meet high standards of performance, user experience, and quality.
• Travel to Asia to ensure teams and suppliers are delivering successfully against goals.
• Shape and execute the hardware product roadmap with stakeholders across the company. Work with the Chief Product Officer and executive team to shape and execute the hardware product roadmap and features, translating requirements into shippable mechanical architecture, schedules, and build plans.
• 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 high-performing engineering team. Manage mechanical, soft goods, and prototype & test engineers, operating as a player-coach who stays close to the technical details.
• 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, clear ownership, and phase gates.
• Provide feedback, coaching, and performance management to help the team consistently deliver.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 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.

Why join Eight Sleep?

• 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.
• Your own Pod - and other great benefits. Every Eight Sleep employee receives the very product that defines our mission: a Pod of their own. 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.