Supplier Quality Specialist

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 one 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 a Supplier Quality Engineer to join our Operations team in San Diego, California. In this role, you are located at the crossroads of Oura Operations, R&D, Supply base and manufacturing operations. You navigate smoothly between several aspects of the quality engineering work - from analyzing highly specified measurement details, to participating in creating long term strategies to help continuously improve the Oura supply base through well planned and executed quality processes and part control characteristics.

You will plan, develop and implement measurement methods, control plans, and other quality engineering processes to help ensure the part and product quality - all the way from concept phase through high volume mass production in a complex, global scale supply base setup. You gather and analyze part specific quality data, and utilize it to improve the processes, parts and ultimately the Oura products. You are leading the implementation of the planned quality processes throughout Oura supply base. You communicate the plans and results of your work effectively, clearly and promptly.

What you will do: 

• Establish yourself throughout the multi-functional Oura teams as supplier quality engineering specialist
• Team up with your key contacts in mechanics, electronics and operations teams to create and drive Oura supply quality engineering efforts
• Develop and implement sufficient quality processes and metrics throughout Oura supply base and final assembly factories
• Gather, combine and evaluate quality data to analyze and steer appropriate quality limits and variables for part and process specifications
• Balance superior quality, process development & control and scalability through essential process limits
• Function as a quality engineering authority in Oura product programs

Requirements

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

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in quality engineering / process development or related field.
• Experience in working with final assembly factories and mechanical enclosures and/or electronics supply base.
• Experience in supplier quality engineering in high volume hand held / wearable and/or consumer products.
• Experience with parts & processes for cosmetic / high visual quality products
• Self-driven and forward-looking attitude
• Willingness to travel

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. We are currently defining the compensation for this role and will update this description when available.

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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.