Senior Data Scientist, Hardware Quality

The role

This role builds reliability and quality models for Oura Ring products. You will develop diagnostics and analytical data products to improve hardware reliability and inform technical decisions.

What you will do

• Build and evolve reliability and quality models for Oura Ring products
• Develop diagnostics and root-cause analysis systems
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify reliability risks
• Analyze component, supplier, manufacturing-process, and ring-build variation
• Build analytical data products and pipelines
• Develop production AI-enhanced dashboards and decision-support tools
• Establish measurement practices for hardware quality
• Translate technical findings into recommendations for hardware roadmaps and decisions
• Take end-to-end ownership of cross-functional problems
• Provide mentorship and documentation

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, reliability engineering, quality analytics, or a closely related quantitative field
• Experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, or advanced analytics to reliability, quality, manufacturing, hardware, IoT, electronics, automotive, medical devices, or a
• Strong experience with reliability and time-to-event methods, such as survival analysis, hazard modeling, accelerated-life testing, degradation modeling, or warranty forecasting
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience building analytical data models, statistical or machine-learning workflows, and production-quality measurement systems
• Strong data-engineering intuition
• Experience working with noisy, incomplete, longitudinal, or high-volume telemetry and test data
• Experience designing experiments or observational analyses
• Experience with modern cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, AWS, dbt, Snowflake, or similar tools
• Ability to communicate complex analytical concepts to engineers, partners, and executives
• Ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-functional teams

Nice to have

• Experience with consumer electronics, wearables, IoT, batteries, embedded systems, firmware, sensors, or connected devices
• Experience analyzing manufacturing, supplier, component traceability, MES, ERP, engineering test, or warranty data
• Experience with battery degradation, runtime modeling, charging optimization, power management, or electronics reliability
• Experience building field-failure analysis, anomaly detection, predictive-maintenance, or early-warning systems
• Familiarity with hardware development and launch processes, including EVT, DVT, PVT, and field-test programs

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Ōura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
• 20 days of paid time off
• 13 paid holidays
• 8 days of flexible wellness time off
• Paid sick leave
• Parental leave

Before you apply

• Not considering candidates residing in Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)

About the company

ŌURA helps people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights through the Oura Ring and its connected app. The company focuses on helping people live healthier and happier lives.