Staff Electrical Engineer

The posting, as Oura wrote it

Our mission at ŌURA 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.

We are looking for a Staff Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices. This opportunity will be hybrid to San Francisco.

What You Will Do

• Electrical Design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus to detail, precision, and reliability. This includes electrical architecture, schematic design, and integration into PCBs, flexes, and other new technologies as required.
• Define, own, and execute rapid prototyping efforts for concepts and evaluations, with both off the shelf and custom hardware.
• 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; have proficiency yourself to create scripts & tools for bring-up, test, and profiling.
• Work with leadership to help define and refine product roadmaps and timelines.

This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.

What you'll bring

• 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.
• 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 (ie. Altium, KiCad, etc.)
• Prototyping: Hands on experience building rapid prototypes and validating electrical and signal performance using typical EE lab

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c 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): $216,000 - $255,000

ŌURA 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 ŌURA 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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