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Prototype & Test Engineering Intern, New Product Development

San Francisco💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and test complex electromechanical systems for a new sleep fitness product, including sensors, pumps, and electronics.

Role type

Prototype & Test Engineering Intern

Builds

Electromechanical prototypes for the Eight Sleep Pod

Domain

Consumer electronics / Sleep technology / Hardware engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

troubleshooting complex systems, hands-on prototyping of mechanical and electrical systems, using lab diagnostic tools (multimeters, oscilloscopes, command-line utilities), hardware-firmware debugging

Preferred skills

familiarity with AI tools for debugging, scripting, or documentation

Technologies

multimeters, oscilloscopes, command-line utilities

Responsibilities

Build and test complex electromechanical systems, deploy systems to real users, review sensor data and field feedback to identify root causes, reproduce and characterize failure cases on the bench, track and report findings to engineering and product teams

Seniority

Intern

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