
Oura
10 days ago

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - San Francisco
$162k - $203kOura
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. Weve 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 Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables, reporting directly to the VP of Hardware. This opportunity will be hybrid to either San Diego or San Francisco.
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
- Flexible to travel 15-20% to Finland and international manufacturing locations
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- Project Experience: 6+ 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. Wearables or mobile experience preferred.
- 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 (metals, plastics, brittles), 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. Use Statistical analysis to help root cause problems and drive solutions.
- 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.