Electrical Engineer, Validation - San Diego

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 over a 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 an Electrical Validation Engineer to join our hardware team working on future wearables and accessory devices reporting directly to the VP of Hardware.  This opportunity will be hybrid out of our San Diego office.

What You will do:

• Drive the validation and verification of electrical systems and subsystems for our next-generation wearable products.
• Develop comprehensive test plans, protocols, and procedures to evaluate performance, reliability, power, and safety.
• Design and execute bench-level validation experiments, including signal integrity, power analysis, sensor accuracy, and wireless performance.
• Collaborate closely with firmware, mechanical, and design teams to ensure robust hardware-software integration and manufacturability.
• Work cross-functionally with the QA, manufacturing, and reliability teams to debug, root-cause, and resolve system-level electrical issues.
• Support the integration and bring-up of early prototypes, ensuring validation coverage across multiple design phases.
• Provide hands-on support in the lab, including test fixture development and automation scripting for efficient testing.
• Travel 15–20% to Finland and international manufacturing sites for validation support and production readiness.

Requirements

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

• 3+ years of experience validating and shipping high-volume consumer electronics, with a focus on low-power systems, sensor technologies, and wireless interfaces.
• Deep expertise in electrical validation, including analog and digital signal testing, power profiling, and protocol-level debugging (UART, I2C, SPI, MIPI, etc).
• Experience developing and executing hardware validation plans, including environmental and regulatory pre-compliance testing.
• Proficiency with EE lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, signal generators, and power analyzers.
• Familiarity with schematic and PCB layout tools (e.g., Altium, Cadence), with the ability to collaborate on design reviews.
• Experience scripting basic automation tasks in Python, MATLAB, or similar for test automation and data analysis.
• Prior work with wearables, optical sensing, wireless charging, or ultra-low-power systems is highly desirable.
• A strong problem-solving mindset, attention to detail, and a drive to proactively identify and mitigate risks early in the development cycle.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly document findings and influence product decisions.
• 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.

Benefits

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 determin