Senior Data Scientist, Hardware Quality

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Hiring Remotely in United States
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148K-203K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
Build reliability and quality models for consumer hardware, analyze manufacturing and telemetry data, develop predictive and decision-support systems, and translate findings into product, quality, firmware, warranty, and supply-chain decisions. The role combines statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, data engineering, and cross-functional technical leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. 

At Oura, our mission is to empower every person to own their inner potential. With our award-winning Oura Ring and app, we help millions of people turn insights about sleep, activity, and readiness into healthier, more balanced lives.We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to partner with Oura’s Hardware, Quality, Firmware, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Support Engineering, and Finance teams. This role will help build the data science and decision systems that make Oura hardware more reliable, from early product testing and launch readiness through field performance, warranty outcomes, and long-term product improvement.You will work on some of the most important problems in consumer hardware: understanding why products fail, predicting reliability before issues reach members, connecting manufacturing and testing data to field outcomes, and turning complex engineering data into clear decisions. This is a full-stack applied data science role that combines data foundations, statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, and cross-functional technical leadership.

What You Will Do:

  • Build and evolve reliability and quality models for current and next-generation Oura Ring products, including warranty forecasts, runtime degradation, survival analysis, failure-mode prediction, and cohort-based field-performance analysis.
  • Develop diagnostics and root-cause analysis systems that connect ring telemetry, firmware and engineering diagnostics, manufacturing records, supplier and component data, testing results, activations, and warranty outcomes.
  • Partner with Hardware, Quality, Firmware, Battery Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Support Engineering to identify the highest-leverage reliability risks and translate them into measurable analytical problems.
  • Analyze component, supplier, manufacturing-process, and ring-build variation to identify drivers of product quality and inform corrective actions, design decisions, and supplier-quality improvements.
  • Build trusted analytical data products and pipelines that unify hardware, manufacturing, firmware, diagnostic, activation, and warranty data and make them usable for recurring analysis and decision-making.
  • Develop production AI-enhanced dashboards, monitoring, and decision-support tools that surface emerging failure risks and provide clear, actionable recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Establish robust measurement practices for hardware quality, including metric definitions, cohorting, normalization, uncertainty, data-quality checks, and appropriate statistical methods.
  • Translate complex technical findings into concise recommendations that influence hardware roadmaps, launch decisions, quality plans, firmware priorities, warranty strategy, and member experience.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of ambiguous, cross-functional problems and help raise the bar for data science practices through documentation, peer review, reusable tooling, and mentorship.

This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco.

What you'll bring:

  • 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, reliability engineering, quality analytics, or a closely related quantitative field, with a track record of owning high-impact problems end to end.
  • Demonstrated experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, or advanced analytics to reliability, quality, manufacturing, hardware, IoT, electronics, automotive, medical devices, or another physical-product domain.
  • Strong experience with reliability and time-to-event methods, such as survival analysis, hazard modeling, accelerated-life testing, degradation modeling, warranty forecasting, or related techniques.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience building analytical data models, statistical or machine-learning workflows, and production-quality measurement systems.
  • Strong data-engineering intuition, including experience unifying and transforming data from multiple operational and technical systems into reliable datasets for analysis and modeling.
  • Experience working with noisy, incomplete, longitudinal, or high-volume telemetry and test data, and the judgment to distinguish data artifacts from meaningful product signals.
  • Experience designing experiments or observational analyses that support technical decisions, including an understanding of confounding, bias, uncertainty, and validation.
  • Experience with modern cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, AWS, dbt, Snowflake, or similar tools.
  • Proven ability to communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to engineers, quality and operations partners, product leaders, and executives.
  • Proven ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-functional teams and to drive progress when requirements and data are still evolving.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with consumer electronics, wearables, IoT, batteries, embedded systems, firmware, sensors, or connected devices.
  • Experience analyzing manufacturing, supplier, component traceability, MES, ERP, engineering test, or warranty data.
  • Experience with battery degradation, runtime modeling, charging optimization, power management, or electronics reliability.
  • Experience building field-failure analysis, anomaly detection, predictive-maintenance, or early-warning systems.
  • Familiarity with hardware development and launch processes, including EVT, DVT, PVT, and field-test programs.
Benefits

At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura 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 Ōura 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

Ōura 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 $172,000- $203,000
Region 2 $158,950- $187,000
Region 3 $147,900- $174,000

A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI).

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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Skills Required

  • 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, reliability engineering, quality analytics, or a closely related quantitative field
  • Experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, or advanced analytics to reliability, quality, manufacturing, hardware, IoT, electronics, automotive, medical devices, or another physical-product domain
  • Experience with reliability and time-to-event methods, including survival analysis, hazard modeling, accelerated-life testing, degradation modeling, or warranty forecasting
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
  • Experience building analytical data models, statistical or machine-learning workflows, and production-quality measurement systems
  • Data-engineering experience unifying and transforming data from multiple operational and technical systems
  • Experience working with noisy, incomplete, longitudinal, or high-volume telemetry and test data
  • Experience designing experiments or observational analyses, including understanding confounding, bias, uncertainty, and validation
  • Experience with modern cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, AWS, dbt, Snowflake, or similar tools
  • Ability to communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to technical and executive stakeholders
  • Ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-functional teams and drive progress amid evolving requirements and data
  • Experience with consumer electronics, wearables, IoT, batteries, embedded systems, firmware, sensors, or connected devices
  • Experience analyzing manufacturing, supplier, component traceability, MES, ERP, engineering test, or warranty data
  • Experience with battery degradation, runtime modeling, charging optimization, power management, or electronics reliability
  • Experience building field-failure analysis, anomaly detection, predictive-maintenance, or early-warning systems
  • Familiarity with hardware development and launch processes, including EVT, DVT, PVT, and field-test programs

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Oulu
850 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

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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