Electrical Engineer, Oura
Validation
$142-228k
Offers equity
Health monitoring smart ring
Open for applications
Health monitoring smart ring
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$142-228k
Offers equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Oura's mission is to make health a daily practice.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience validating and shipping high-volume consumer electronics, with a focus on low-power systems, sensor technologies, and wireless interfaces
- Deep expertise in electrical validation, including analog and digital signal testing, power profiling, and protocol-level debugging (UART, I2C, SPI, MIPI, etc)
- Experience developing and executing hardware validation plans, including environmental and regulatory pre-compliance testing
- Proficiency with EE lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, signal generators, and power analyzers
- Familiarity with schematic and PCB layout tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence), with the ability to collaborate on design reviews
- Experience scripting basic automation tasks in Python, MATLAB, or similar for test automation and data analysis
- Prior work with wearables, optical sensing, wireless charging, or ultra-low-power systems is highly desirable
- A strong problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, and a drive to proactively identify and mitigate risks early in the development cycle
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly document findings and influence product decisions
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Electrical Validation Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the VP of Hardware
- Drive the validation and verification of electrical systems and subsystems for our next-generation wearable products
- Develop comprehensive test plans, protocols, and procedures to evaluate performance, reliability, power, and safety
- Design and execute bench-level validation experiments, including signal integrity, power analysis, sensor accuracy, and wireless performance
- Collaborate closely with firmware, mechanical, and design teams to ensure robust hardware-software integration and manufacturability
- Work cross-functionally with the QA, manufacturing, and reliability teams to debug, root-cause, and resolve system-level electrical issues
- Support the integration and bring-up of early prototypes, ensuring validation coverage across multiple design phases
- Provide hands-on support in the lab, including test fixture development and automation scripting for efficient testing
- Travel 15–20% to Finland and international manufacturing sites for validation support and production readiness
Our take
As smart watches with health and wellbeing monitoring functions are now an everyday norm, Oura is offering similar wearable technology with its series of rings. It’s one of a number of companies gaining serious traction in the market, along with the likes of Circular and Movano.
The company gained an early profile after its collaboration with Gucci which created mainstream publicity and may have given it a leg up on the competition. With the smart ring market forecast to keep growing, Oura certainly finds itself in a promising position as it moves to build out its operations and refine the product.
The bottom line for Oura will be customer satisfaction and demand, which does make its mixed reviews so far a little troubling. That said, the announcement of its new "Circles" social feature, on top of an integration with InsideTracker and acquisition of "wave to pay" company Proxy, all look set to increase the functionality of the ring and could well win more consumers over.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2024
$125m
SERIES D
Nov 2024
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $354.4m
Company benefits
- Beautiful workspaces in San Francisco by Pier 31, Oulu and Helsinki (Finland)
- Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
- Wellness benefits
- An Oura Ring of your own
- Personal learning & development budget of 750 USD/EUR
- Unlimited course offerings from Coursera
- Five (5) total days of work time to devote to employee development training
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 days of PTO
Company HQ
Linnanmaa, Oulu
Leadership
Tom Hale
(CEO, Not Founder)Seasoned senior board member and advisor at multiple high growth companies including Cars.com, Volara, and HomeAway.
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