Senior Molding Process Engineer

Oura Oura · Consumer · San Francisco, CA +1 · Supply Chain

Oura is seeking a Senior Molding Process Engineer to lead the development, optimization, and deployment of epoxy-based molding and sealing processes for their consumer products. This role involves contributing to product design, working with machinery vendors, driving process improvements, supporting manufacturing readiness, and acting as a global expert across multiple sites and manufacturers. The position requires hands-on experience with epoxy-based processes, high-volume manufacturing, DOE, DFM, and strong collaboration skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to product and process design through DFM work in close collaboration with R&D, Quality, Reliability, suppliers, and factories
  2. Work with molding machinery vendors to optimize and further develop molding process capabilities
  3. Lead development and continuous improvement of epoxy molding, sealing, and related assembly processes for current and future Oura products
  4. Drive process capability, yield, quality, and throughput improvements through structured DOE, process studies, and validation activities
  5. Support manufacturing readiness, prototype builds, pilot builds, and factory ramp-ups across external partners

Skills

Required

  • Strong hands-on experience developing and improving different kind of epoxy-based manufacturing processes such as molding, encapsulation, sealing, adhesive application, or similar material-driven processes
  • Proven track record in high-volume manufacturing, preferably in consumer electronics or other precision products
  • Experience with DOE, process characterization, validation, and process capability improvement
  • Strong understanding of DFM, tooling, materials, and how process decisions affect product quality and manufacturability
  • Experience working with suppliers, factories, and cross-functional teams to deploy process improvements into production
  • Analytical, systematic, and organized way of working with strong follow-through on actions and decisions
  • Strong communication skills and comfort working across engineering, quality, operations, and external partners
  • Comfort working in English, both written and spoken

Nice to have

  • Injection molding applications are not in focus for this position.