Staff Product Design Engineer – Tooling

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 a Staff Product Design Engineer – Tooling to join our Hardware Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of specialized molding tools and components that support Oura’s epoxy molding and encapsulation processes. You will play a key role in exploring new materials, enabling new manufacturing capabilities, and improving the performance and reliability of Oura’s products.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of precision tooling, inserts, and fixtures for epoxy molding and encapsulation.
• Create detailed CAD, drawings, and specifications that support both rapid iteration and high-volume manufacturing.
• Drive experimentation to evaluate new tooling concepts, material behaviors, and process conditions.
• Collaborate closely with Materials Science, Product Design, and Manufacturing Engineering to integrate new tools into Oura’s production workflows.
• Partner with global manufacturing teams and suppliers to prototype, build, qualify, and scale new tooling solutions.
• Support the development of process documentation, standards, and best practices.

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design Engineering, or related field.
  6+ years (Senior) or 10+ years (Staff) of experience in tooling design, molding processes, or high-precision manufacturing.
• Strong proficiency in 3D CAD (NX preferred) and engineering drawing practices.
• Experience developing tooling for epoxy molding, encapsulation, or polymer-based manufacturing processes.
• Ability to run experiments, collect data, analyze results, and translate insights into design or process improvements.
• Experience collaborating with automation, equipment vendors, and global manufacturing partners.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across disciplines.
  
  

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.

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

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 $216,750 - $255,000
• Region 2 $169,000 - $211,000

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)