Staff Mechanical Design Engineer, Oura
$179.6-204.1k
+ Equity packages
Health monitoring smart ring
Open for applications
Health monitoring smart ring
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$179.6-204.1k
+ Equity packages
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Oura's mission is to make health a daily practice.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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: $353.1m
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 values
- Not Me, We: Ubuntu - At Oura, we are one team. We each have a significant role to play–but we don’t win in silos. We know in order to succeed, we must do it together. We embrace the diversity of our locations, perspectives, and experiences to succeed as one company
- We Are Human First - Humanity is present in all that we do. We are passionate about building products that celebrate and support uniqueness, inclusivity, and diversity. We meet people where they are, as they are, and prioritize accessibility, by connecting with kindness and empathy
- We Find Solutions - We confront obstacles head-on. Even if we disagree, we share one common goal: solving the problem, together
- Trust Matters - If we say we’ll do something, we do it. We always show up with integrity, and we prioritize privacy– because it doesn’t just matter to us, but to you, as well. We do the right thing, even when no one is looking. It is vital to us that our community and teammates know that they can rely on our products, information, and perspective
Company HQ
Linnanmaa, Oulu
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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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