Senior Molding Process Engineer

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 an experienced Molding Process Engineer to join our US team and lead the development, optimization, and deployment of epoxy-based molding and sealing processes for Oura products. Injection molding applications are not in focus for this position.

This role is a global expert position supporting multiple products and contract manufacturers based on the needs of NPI programs and mass production. The right person will be equally comfortable working hands-on on the factory floor, driving structured DOE and process studies, and influencing design and manufacturing decisions early in development.

This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in the office.

What You will do

• Contribute to product and process design through DFM work in close collaboration with R&D, Quality, Reliability, suppliers, and factories
• Work with molding machinery vendors to optimize and further develop molding process capabilities
• Lead development and continuous improvement of epoxy molding , sealing, and related assembly processes for current and future Oura products
• Drive process capability, yield, quality, and throughput improvements through structured DOE, process studies, and validation activities
• Support manufacturing readiness , prototype builds, pilot builds, and factory ramp-ups across external partners
• Work as a global expert across multiple products, sites, and contract manufacturers according to business need
• Mentor other cross-functional team members and help strengthen process engineering ways of working across Oura manufacturin

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

• 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
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time at a minimum
• This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in the office

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 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: $172,550 - $203,000
• Region 2: $158,950 - $187,000
• Region 3: $147,900 - $174,000

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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