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.
We are looking for an Electrical Engineer Intern to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the Director of Hardware. This opportunity will be hybrid in San Diego, CA.
What you will do:
- Support the electrical design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with guidance from senior engineers, focusing on detail, precision, and reliability. Assisting with electrical architecture, component selection, schematic design, and integration into PCBs and flex circuits.
- Conduct thorough testing, validation, and troubleshooting of electrical systems to ensure they meet performance, quality, reliability, and safety standards.
- Support manufacturing builds and testing of PCBs, flexes, and product subassemblies in collaboration with our manufacturing partners.
- Work alongside mechanical and sensor 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.
- Perform lab work and prototyping, such as assembling prototypes, running experiments, collecting data, and summarizing findings.
We would love to consider you for this role, if you have:
- Currently working towards a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Junior, senior, or graduate student status is preferred.
- Relevant coursework or academic projects in circuits, electronics, embedded systems, or signal processing. Prior internship or work experience is required.
- Intuitive understanding of analog and digital circuits and components, gained through coursework or projects. Familiarity with microcontrollers, common communication interfaces (e.g., UART, I²C, SPI), and basic embedded hardware concepts.
- Experience working with schematic capture and PCB layout software (ie. Altium, Cadence, KiCad, etc)
- Hands on experience building prototypes and validating electrical and signal performance using typical EE lab equipment: soldering irons, DMMs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, signal generators, and power analyzers.
- Ability to work through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment and using creativity to explore solutions.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills are important. Be able to work effectively with other engineers and explain your work to both technical and non-technical teammates.
- Experience with ultra-low-power systems, MEMS sensors, optical sensing, wireless charging, wearables, or health-related devices. Familiarity with Python scripting to automate simple tests or data analysis.
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 2 (SD): $ $97,750 - $115,000 (prorated for length of internship)
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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What We Do
Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey. JOIN THE OURA TEAM Oura is full of skilled experts and we’re known to share a good laugh every now and then. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We respect our partners, privacy and the scientific method. We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience. Oura Health Ltd.’s HQ and major manufacturing facilities are located in Oulu, Finland. Other locations include Helsinki and San Francisco.
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