Sobre este puesto de Staff Electrical Engineer en Ōura
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 Staff Electrical Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices. This opportunity will be hybrid to San Francisco.
What You Will Do:
- Electrical Design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus to detail, precision, and reliability. This includes electrical architecture, schematic design, and integration into PCBs, flexes, and other new technologies as required.
- Define, own, and execute rapid prototyping efforts for concepts and evaluations, with both off the shelf and custom hardware.
- Conduct thorough testing, validation, and troubleshooting of electrical systems to ensure they meet performance and safety standards. Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to develop test plans.
- Work closely with mechanical 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; have proficiency yourself to create scripts & tools for bring-up, test, and profiling.
- Work with leadership to help define and refine product roadmaps and timelines.
This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office.
What you'll bring
- Project Experience: 10+ years of experience designing and shipping high volume consumer electronics as an HW Systems Integrator, who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams alongside Firmware Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Industrial and Interaction Designers. Experience working with ultra low power microprocessors, SoCs, MEMS sensors, and Wireless Charging technologies.
- Electrical Design and Validation: Experience designing and validating custom analog and digital circuits and systems, including component selection, signal processing, and extremely comfortable with many communication protocols: UART, I2C, MIPI, SPI, DSI, and others. Experience scripting basic functions and working alongside firmware engineers to automate testing.
- Design Software Tools: Experience working with schematic capture and PCB layout software (ie. Altium, KiCad, etc.)
- Prototyping: Hands on experience building rapid prototypes and validating electrical and signal performance using typical EE lab equipment: rework equipment, DMMs, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and power analyzers. Can quickly design, release, and bring-up custom quick-turn PCBs.
- Manufacturing Expertise: Detailed experience designing, building, and testing high density PCBs, flexes, batteries, and sensing modules from concept to production. Experience working closely with CMs/JDMs to design and manufacture high precision and high quality products.
- Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: You are comfortable with the unknown, the ambiguous, and strive to make engineering challenges a reality through creativity.
- Driven, Technical Leadership: Able to drive tasks independently, act as a leader and mentor across multiple organizations, organize, escalate and communicate issues and needs clearly.
- Communication and Collaboration Skills: Effective communication and collaboration skills are important. Be able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, work with other engineers and designers, and contribute to project planning and documentation.
Nice to have:
- Experience with connected wearables, health & optical sensing, audio, and small form-factor products.
- Ability to travel overseas to Europe & Asia several times a year to visit vendors & colleagues.
- Familiarity with wireless protocols like BLE, BT, WiFi, NFC, 802.15.4, etc.
- Familiarity with 3D printing tools and mechanical fabrication.
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 (SF): $216,000 - $255,000
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.
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