Staff Mechanical Design Engineer (San Francisco or San Diego)

As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you that response times and the hiring process may be slightly extended due to business team schedules. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding during this period and remain committed to keeping you informed as we review applications. Thank you for considering a role at ŌURA—we look forward to learning more about you!

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped 2.5 million people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. 

We are looking for a Staff Mechanical Design Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables, reporting directly to the VP of Hardware.  This position will be based out of our San Francisco or San Diego office. 

What you will do: 

• Mechanical design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus to detail, precision, and design
• Drive product development with our manufacturing partners in Asia, North America, and Europe
• Build a lot of prototypes, break them, and iterate quickly.
• Work with leadership to help define and drive product roadmap and timelines.

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• Project Experience: 10+ years of experience as a consumer product design engineer who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams alongside Industrial Designers, Hardware Engineers, and UX Designers. Strong preference given to those with high volume wearables experience.
• 3D Modeling: Experience using 3D CAD (NX or Solidworks) to design densely packaged consumer electronic parts including: PCBs, flexes, antennas, enclosures, mechanisms, and batteries, etc.
• Prototyping: Ability to scrappily build prototypes quickly and effectively to evaluate design concepts using standard test equipment. 
• Materials and Manufacturing Expertise: Knowledgeable about a wide variety of materials, and scalable manufacturing processes.  A deep technical foundation in mechanics of materials. 
• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: You are comfortable with the unknown, the ambiguous, and strive to make engineering challenges a reality through creativity
• Driven, Technical Leadership: Able to drive tasks independently, act as a leader and mentor across multiple organizations, organize, escalate and communicate issues and needs clearly. 

• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Effective communication and collaboration skills are important. Be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, work with other engineers and designers, and contribute to project planning and documentation.