Senior Mechanical 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 their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped 2.5 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 highly skilled and experienced Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the failure analysis, testing and implementation of design improvements of mechanical solutions in our product maintenance programs. This is a key technical role, responsible for ensuring design excellence and quality for mechanical aspects. You will work together with the quality department, member experience, data analytics and production testing related to our products in the maintenance phase.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in failure analysis of mechanical design and testing methods. As a senior team member, you will also provide technical leadership and collaborate with the quality department cross-functionally to ensure the desired product quality.

What You will do

• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for mechanical failures
• Ensuring mechanics component quality over life-time
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for  mechanical components, ensuring performance over product life-time, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Evaluate and qualify alternative mechanical components, (2nd sources), ensuring seamless integration and cost-effectiveness. Collaborate closely with the sourcing department.
• Reviewing and improving production testing coverage for mechanical assemblies.
• Perform detailed mechanical design reviews and CAD analyses of existing products to identify opportunities for robustness improvements, material optimization, and assembly efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including mechanics, quality, testing, electrical, and manufacturing engineers.
• Continuously research and implement new technologies and methods to improve product performance and quality.
• Review and approve design documentation, test procedures and engineering reports.
• Vendor and Partner Management: Work with suppliers, manufacturing partners, and technology providers to deliver desired quality of components.

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in mechanical design and verification, with 3–5 years in a senior engineering role, including project leadership.
• Deep expertise in troubleshooting mechanical products including reliability failures, tolerance analysis, DFM/DFA, and various manufacturing processes.
• Problem Solving: Strong technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Thorough understanding of the product maintenance activities, from the start of the mass production until the end of life of the product.
• Experience with design tools such as CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks, NX).
• Prototyping and Validation: Hands-on experience with building and validating prototypes. 
• Leadership: Proven ability to interact within engineering teams and deliver complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work effectively across internal teams and external partners.

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.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Lunch benefit
• Wellness benefit
• Flexible working hours
• An Oura ring of your own
• Personal learning & development program
• Wellness Time Off

If this sounds like the next step for you, please send us your application and CV as soon as possible, but latest August 21st.

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, socioeconomic status, 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.