Staff Electrical Engineer (San Francisco or San Diego)

Company: Ouraring Inc
Location: San Diego
Posted on: March 18, 2025

Job Description:

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 over a million people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.Empowering the world starts with living 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 Staff Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the VP of Hardware. This opportunity will be hybrid out of our San Diego office.What You Will Do:

• Electrical design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus on detail, precision, and reliability. This includes electrical architecture, schematic design, and integration into PCBs, flexes, and other new technologies as required.
• Conduct thorough testing, validation, and troubleshooting of electrical systems to ensure they meet performance and safety standards. Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to develop test plans.
• Work closely with mechanical engineers to ensure seamless integration of electrical components within the product's physical design. Collaborate with firmware engineers to develop embedded systems and ensure software-hardware compatibility.
• Work with leadership to help define and refine product roadmaps and timelines.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 as an HW Systems Integrator, who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams alongside Firmware Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Industrial and Interaction Designers. Experience working with ultra-low power microprocessors, SoCs, MEMS sensors, and Wireless Charging technologies. Connected wearables and optical sensing experience preferred.
  • Electrical Design and Validation: Experience designing and validating custom analog and digital circuits and systems, including component selection, signal processing, and extremely comfortable with many communication protocols: UART, I2C, MIPI, SPI, DSI, and others. Experience scripting basic functions and working alongside firmware engineers to automate testing.
  • Design Software Tools: Experience working with schematic capture and PCB layout software (e.g., Altium, Cadence, etc).
  • Prototyping: Hands-on experience building prototypes and validating electrical and signal performance using typical EE lab equipment: rework equipment, DMMs, Oscilloscopes, signal generators, and power analyzers.
  • Manufacturing Expertise: Detailed experience designing, building, and testing high density PCBs, flexes, batteries, and sensing modules from concept to production. Experience working closely with CMs/JDMs to design and manufacture high precision and high quality products.
  • 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.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: $182,000 - $228,000
      • Region 2: $169,000 - $211,000
      • Region 3: $159,000 - $199,000A 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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