Staff Product Design Engineer
Posted on January 22, 2026 (about 5 hours ago)
Staff Product Design Engineer
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 the 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.
What you will do:
We are looking for a Staff Mechanical Design Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables. This opportunity will be hybrid to either San Diego or San Francisco.
- 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
Qualifications
We would love to consider you for this role if you have the following:
- 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. Wearables experience preferred.
- Exercises independent judgement in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- 3D Modeling: Experience using 3D CAD (NX or SolidWorks) to design densely packaged consumer electronic parts including PCBs, flexes, antennas, enclosures, mechanisms, and batteries
- 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, with a deep technical foundation in mechanics of materials
- Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Comfortable with the unknown and ambiguous, and able 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; able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders 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
Compensation
Oura takes a market-based approach to pay and provides location-based ranges for U.S. roles. Listed ranges for this role are:
- Region 1 (San Francisco): $198,000 - $233,000
- Region 2 (San Diego): $180,000 - $212,000
Equal opportunity and important notices
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 protected characteristics. Oura will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process and to perform essential job functions.
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How to apply
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