# Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Eight Sleep

- Company: Eight Sleep
- What the company does: Fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer with personalized cooling and heating for each side of the bed. Pod 6 reduces snoring and works with any mattress. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.eightsleep.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eightsleep/ad48addf-a96e-4633-9d73-a0a49f086f1d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/eight-sleep-senior-embedded-software-engineer/

## About the role

Join our team as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to help us bring current and next generations of the Pod and new hardware products to life. You'll be a part of a small team designing and implementing solutions with high levels of autonomy to bring our members better sleep. Your work will go directly to our fleet of existing Pods with low friction and direct impact to the business. This role requires full time work out of our San Francisco office .

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in firmware and system software development with C/C++
- Deep expertise in Embedded Linux, including Yocto, Bitbake, systemd, and kernel development
- Proficiency in secure software development for IoT and embedded systems
- Experience optimizing compute workloads in resource-constrained environments
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as needed to support manufacturing and deployment
- Experience implementing secure boot on embedded Linux devices, including signing, key management/provisioning, and anti-rollback

Tags: Software Engineering