What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Materials Engineer (San Diego) position at Oura?
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. By providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped over one million people understand and improve their health.
For us, 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 work to promote work-life balance and 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 Materials Engineer to join our research and development team in creating the next generation of products at Oura. You will also contribute to ongoing materials development work across the company in the US and Finland.
Working with multi-functional engineering, product design, and sourcing teams, you will identify and develop materials technologies to satisfy both aesthetic and engineering needs, and help drive testing and validation for use in Oura’s products.
What you will do:
- Drive advancement of materials and processes for oura products.
- Play a significant role in deciding what materials technologies to pursue.
- Work with multi-disciplinary engineering and product design to create materials requirements and specifications.
- Identify the best engineering path to implement new materials technology in Oura products, including finding new materials technologies that satisfy aesthetic and engineering requirements.
- Lead materials development projects to production including defining materials testing and validation.
This is a San Diego, USA based roll with opportunity for some remote work.
