Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - San Diego

併牡; California; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their dynamic hardware team. This role focuses on the design and development of cutting-edge wearables, requiring creativity and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in consumer product design, particularly in fast-paced environments. You'll be responsible for prototyping and iterating designs while ensuring precision and detail in your work. Join a passionate team that values employee well-being and offers a competitive salary along with excellent benefits, including health insurance and generous paid time off. This is your chance to make a significant impact in a thriving industry.

Benefits

Health, dental, vision insurance

20 days paid time off

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Amazing culture of collaboration

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in consumer product design engineering.
• Experience with 3D CAD for designing consumer electronic parts.

Responsibilities

• Mechanical design and development of wearable devices.
• Drive product development with manufacturing partners.

Skills

3D CAD (NX or Solidworks)

Prototyping

Materials and Manufacturing Expertise

Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills

Communication and Collaboration Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Job description

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 2.5 million 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 Mechanical Design Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables, reporting directly to the VP of Hardware. This opportunity will be hybrid to either San Diego or San Francisco.

What you will do:

• Mechanical design and development of cutting-edge wearable and other consumer devices, with a keen focus to detail, precision, and design
• Drive product development with our manufacturing partners in Asia, North America, and Europe
• Build a lot of prototypes, break them, and iterate quickly.

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• Project Experience: 6+ years of experience as a consumer product design engineer who loves working on highly creative, fast-paced, and collaborative teams alongside Industrial Designers, Hardware Engineers, and UX Designers. Wearables or mobile experience preferred.
• 3D Modeling: Experience using 3D CAD (NX or Solidworks) to design densely packaged consumer electronic parts including: PCBs, flexes, antennas, enclosures, mechanisms, and batteries, etc.
• Prototyping: Ability to scrappily build prototypes quickly and effectively to evaluate design concepts using standard test equipment.
• Materials and Manufacturing Expertise: Knowledgeable about a wide variety of materials (metals, plastics, brittles), and scalable manufacturing processes. A deep technical foundation in mechanics of materials.
• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: You are comfortable with the unknown, the ambiguous, and strive to make engineering challenges a reality through creativity. Use Statistical analysis to help root cause problems and drive solutions.
• 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.

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 and add to our benefits!

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
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

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 Diego Compensation Range: $150,000 - $182,000

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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