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 a Senior AI Scientist to help define and build the next generation of AI-powered health experiences at Oura. This is a hybrid role that blends AI engineering, ML deployment, backend engineering, and applied science — sitting at the intersection of cutting-edge AI techniques and real consumer impact. You will work on a small, high-ownership team with direct visibility to senior leadership, driving the evaluation, development, and deployment of custom AI solutions and agentic systems that power Oura's AI Advisor.
This is not a research role. You will be expected to move from idea to production, own systems end to end, and proactively identify what to build next.
What You Will Do
- Build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI and ML pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure that support Oura's AI Advisor and custom model initiatives
- Design and implement evaluation systems and tooling to measure grounding, reliability, and actionability of LLM and agentic systems in production
- Develop and deploy agentic AI systems in production
- Lead initiatives end to end — from problem definition and research through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate data-driven insights into shipped product features
- Build and optimize custom AI solutions through fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and quantization
- Help build Oura as a leader in AI expertise and infrastructure
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve the product and bring your own ideas to the table
This is a remote US role.
Requirements
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- 5+ years of experience in production AI or ML work — you have shipped models and systems used by real external users
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals — you have built APIs, infrastructure, logging, and monitoring systems for production ML or AI pipelines and are comfortable owning them on-call
- Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and evaluating LLM or agentic systems in production environments
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML and AI frameworks
- Experience leading projects end to end — from research and problem definition through deployment and monitoring
- The ability to operate with high autonomy in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment where you define your own roadmap
- Strong communication skills — you can distill complex technical work for non-technical stakeholders including senior leadership
Preferred skills:
- Experience building AI agents and multi-step agentic workflows
- Experience with fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, or quantization of LLMs
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, CDK)
- Background in consumer health, wellness, or personalization AI
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 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
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 $203,000 - $233,000
- Region 2 $187,000 - $215,000
- Region 3 $174,000 - $200,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)
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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in production AI or ML work
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, infrastructure)
- Built logging, monitoring, and owned production ML/AI pipelines on-call
- Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and evaluating LLM or agentic systems in production
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience with ML and AI frameworks
- Experience leading projects end to end from research through deployment and monitoring
- Ability to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Strong communication skills to distill complex technical work for non-technical stakeholders
- Remote US-based role (candidates in AK, DE, IA, MS, MO, NE, SD, VT, WV, WI not considered)
- Experience building AI agents and multi-step agentic workflows
- Experience with fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, or quantization of LLMs
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, CDK)
- Background in consumer health, wellness, or personalization AI
Ōura Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ōura and has not been reviewed or approved by Ōura.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive for a midsize, high‑growth company, supported by posted role‑ and location‑based pay bands that signal structured ranges. A public equal‑pay pledge reinforces attention to fairness.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is a meaningful part of total compensation at a growing company, contributing to perceived upside over time. This ownership component complements base pay in the total rewards mix.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The package includes substantial PTO, paid holidays, and dedicated wellness days that together exceed a basic time‑off offering. This breadth of time away supports recovery and balance.
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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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