# Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)

**Company:** [Eightsleep](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/eightsleep)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Python, SQL, Spark, Ray, LLMs, RAG, Federated Learning
**Posted:** 2026-01-21

> Builds and deploys ML models for sleep personalization, readiness forecasting, and behavior prediction using foundation models and multimodal data. Requires 2+ years production ML experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow, personalization systems, and strong Python engineering.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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.

## Requirements
**Minimum Qualifications**
- 2+ years building ML systems in production, ideally for consumer-facing products.
- Strong ML fundamentals across supervised learning, sequence/time-series modeling, and modern deep learning.
- 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).
- 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.

**Bonus Points**
- Experience applying **LLMs/foundation models** to product features (tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, guardrails, evals).
- Experience with multimodal data (sensor signals + context) and/or health/biometrics data.
- Experience with privacy-preserving approaches (on-device/federated learning, differential privacy, data minimization).
- Experience designing experimentation frameworks or causal inference approaches for personalization.

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