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 millions of 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.
Staff Electrical Engineer
We are looking for a Staff Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the Director of Hardware. This opportunity will be hybrid to either San Diego or San Francisco.
What You will do:
- System design and development including electrical architecture, system integration, and new technology development.
- Drive miniaturization and ultra-low power operation through custom hardware development, power modeling, and hardware/software optimization.
- Collaborate with software, mechanical engineering, RF engineering, and vendors to solve complex technical problems.
- Develop and manage system performance and validation plans around EMI/ESD, coexistence, and reliability.
- Work with leadership to help define and refine product roadmaps and timelines.
Requirements:
We would love to have you on our team, if You have:
- Project Experience: 10+ years of experience designing and shipping high volume consumer electronics products as a HW Engineer or Architect, who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams. Experience working with ultra-low power microprocessors, SoCs, MEMS sensors, wireless technologies, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities. Connected wearables and optical sensing experience preferred.
- System Design: Experience designing and validating analog and digital systems, including component selection, system architecture, and signal processing. Extremely familiar with compute blocks (CPUs, NPUs, DSPs, ISPs) and communication protocols (UART, I2C, MIPI, SPI, and others).Size and Power Optimization: Experience with silicon definition and customization, designing for low power operation, power modeling, and understanding of end-to-end system operation.
- Performance and Quality: High bar for quality, and extensive experience with identifying performance and reliability risks and proactively validating the design.
- Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: 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.
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 plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and 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.
- Region 1 (SF): $198,050 - $233,000
- Region 2 (SD): $180,200 - $212,000
- Region 3: $169,150 - $199,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
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 regard 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.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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Ōura San Francisco, California, USA Office
222 Kearny street , San Francisco, CA, United States, 94133
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