Senior Materials Engineer (San Diego)

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. By providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped over one million people understand and improve their health.

For us, 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 work to promote work-life balance and 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 Materials Engineer  to join our research and development team in creating the next generation of products at Oura. You will also contribute to ongoing materials development work across the company in the US and Finland. 

Working with multi-functional engineering, product design, and sourcing teams, you will identify and develop materials technologies to satisfy both aesthetic and engineering needs, and help drive testing and validation for use in Oura’s products. 

What you will do: 

• Drive advancement of materials and processes for oura products.
• Play a significant role in deciding what materials technologies to pursue. 
• Work with multi-disciplinary engineering and product design to create materials requirements and specifications.  
• Identify the best engineering path to implement new materials technology in Oura products, including finding new materials technologies that satisfy aesthetic and engineering requirements.
• Lead materials development projects to production including defining materials testing and validation.

This is a San Diego, USA based roll with opportunity for some remote work.

Requirements

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

• Offer at least 5 years of experience in a materials engineering capacity
• Knowledge of materials fundamentals, characterization and analysis methods. (Microscopy, mechanical testing etc.)
• Direct experience working on materials selection, testing, and development for consumer products.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to use statistical tools and techniques. 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, drive projects, and deliver products

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health and add to our benefits!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Oura Ring of your own + employee discounts for friends & family
• Fertility benefits through Carrot Pro
• Flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
• $750 Learning & Development credit
• 20 days of PTO + 13 paid holidays + 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• 5 days paid sick leave, 5 days bereavement leave, 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates’ pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• San Diego Region  $138,107 - $161,900 

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Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.