Staff Electrical Engineer

Oura Oura · Consumer · San Diego, CA +2 · Hardware

Staff Electrical Engineer for Oura's hardware team, focusing on future wearables and accessory devices. Responsibilities include system design, miniaturization, ultra-low power operation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Requires 10+ years of experience in high-volume consumer electronics, with expertise in analog/digital systems, component selection, and silicon definition for low power.

What you'd actually do

  1. System design and development including electrical architecture, system integration, and new technology development.
  2. Drive miniaturization and ultra-low power operation through custom hardware development, power modeling, and hardware/software optimization.
  3. Collaborate with software, mechanical engineering, RF engineering, and vendors to solve complex technical problems.
  4. Develop and manage system performance and validation plans around EMI/ESD, coexistence, and reliability.
  5. Work with leadership to help define and refine product roadmaps and timelines.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience designing and shipping high volume consumer electronics products
  • Experience working with ultra-low power microprocessors, SoCs, MEMS sensors, wireless technologies, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities
  • Experience designing and validating analog and digital systems
  • Component selection
  • System architecture
  • Signal processing
  • Compute blocks (CPUs, NPUs, DSPs, ISPs)
  • Communication protocols (UART, I2C, MIPI, SPI)
  • Silicon definition and customization
  • Designing for low power operation
  • Power modeling
  • End-to-end system operation
  • Identifying performance and reliability risks
  • Proactively validating the design
  • Problem-solving
  • Analytical skills
  • Technical leadership
  • Communication skills
  • Collaboration skills

Nice to have

  • Connected wearables
  • Optical sensing experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience designing and shipping high volume consumer electronics products
  • Experience working with ultra-low power microprocessors, SoCs, MEMS sensors, wireless technologies, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities
  • Extremely familiar with compute blocks (CPUs, NPUs, DSPs, ISPs) and communication protocols (UART, I2C, MIPI, SPI, and others)
  • Experience with silicon definition and customization, designing for low power operation, power modeling, and understanding of end-to-end system operation
  • High bar for quality, and extensive experience with identifying performance and reliability risks and proactively validating the design