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 experienced Senior Manufacturing Process Engineer with extensive experience in high volume consumer electronics applications to join our US team to manage and continuously improve manufacturing processes, bring strong improvements to assembly methods across NPI and sustaining products, bring up new products at contract manufacturer (CM) sites and you will feel comfortable working hands-on at the factory floor and troubleshooting issues that arise on a daily basis.
This is a U.S.-based hybrid role for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week. The role includes frequent travel and will require a daily onsite presence in Guadalajara, Mexico, predominately in the first six months. Appropriate work authorization to support traveling and working in Mexico is required.
What You will do:
- Work on-site with contract manufacturers for OURA products to support the execution of world class high-volume ring production ensuring that manufacturing meets the required quality, cost, and delivery targets
- Work independently to devise daily, weekly, and monthly schedules to ensure robust monitoring and reporting of manufacturing performance to the required internal and external teams; this includes implementing and driving recovery actions and plans where necessary
- Work closely with the Manufacturing and Quality teams to run data gathering and design of experiment studies to provide recommendations on process improvements to increase product yield, reduce product cost and support delivery
- Ensure that best practices are communicated and implemented across all contract manufacturers
- Work with the Quality function to understand current and projected field failure rates, then propose and implement solutions to improve field performance to enhance the customer experience
- Manage on-site validation and qualification of new production lines or equipment
- Co-ordinate PRQ validation activities on-site
- Influence functions such as design and sourcing by providing recommendations on current and future product and footprint strategy
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
- 7+ years of experience working in a Supplier Manufacturing, Process Engineer, or similar roles. Ideally seeking someone with strong mechanical process development and design understanding
- Proven track record working in/with consumer electronics manufacturing. Hands on experience of electronics assembly processes, automation, and collaboration with factories.
- Experience in miniaturized product designs – preferably consumer electronics
- Strong background in bringing up CMs and qualifying products with multiples lines and multiple sites simultaneously.
- Knowledge of manufacturing process parameters and statistical process control as well as experience in developing and fine-tuning process control methods and improving yields.
- You work collaboratively and effectively in a complex environment and with cross-functional teams, external parties, and factories.
- Systematic and organized way of working. You effectively identify and set priorities for the tasks at hand.
- Expectation to travel up to 50% of the time with a minimum of being in Mexico 30+ days at a time
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.
- San Francisco Salary Range $172,550 - $203, 000
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.
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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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