Director, Hardware Reliability Hybrid Hybrid

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’re looking for a hands‑on Hardware Reliability Director to lead the strategy and execution of our hardware reliability and validation programs. In this role, you’ll ensure that every Oura product meets the highest standards of quality, durability, and performance. You’ll drive reliability initiatives from concept through mass production, collaborating closely with testing, design, firmware, quality, and manufacturing teams to deliver products that stand up to real‑world use.

As both a technical and people leader, you’ll mentor a talented team of reliability engineers while staying actively involved in testing, data analysis, and problem‑solving that directly shape the Oura Ring experience.

This is an on‑site position based in San Diego or San Francisco, CA.

• Define and own the hardware reliability strategy, ensuring it supports Oura’s product roadmap, design principles, and business objectives.
• Drive the evolution of reliability and validation methodologies across mechanical, electrical, and environmental domains to ensure long‑term product durability and customer satisfaction.
• Establish standardized reliability metrics and KPIs to measure and continuously improve product robustness, test coverage, and overall quality.
• Lead strategic initiatives that elevate design‑for‑reliability practices and influence upstream design and manufacturing decisions.

• Lead and mentor a team of hardware reliability engineers. Providing technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development support.
• Build a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with product design, mechanical, electrical, firmware, and operations teams to ensure reliability is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identify and address skill gaps, ensuring the team’s capabilities match evolving product needs.
• Represent the hardware reliability function in cross‑functional program reviews.

• Lead hardware reliability strategy integration with contract manufacturers (CMs), ensuring consistent quality during development and mass production.
• Establish reliability requirements, qualification plans, and test protocols for CMs to ensure consistent product performance at scale.
• Manage relationships with external labs and technology partners to augment in‑house reliability capabilities and validate compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership in critical reliability investigations, from initial failure observation through detailed root cause analysis, validation, and corrective action.
• Lead personally root cause investigations and drive resolution of complex hardware issues leveraging deep technical knowledge across mechanical, electrical, and materials domains to guide effective problem‑solving.
• Work closely with Electrical, Mechanical, firmware and test engineers and design teams in the lab and on‑site at contract manufacturers to review data, inspect failure modes, and validate corrective actions in real time.

Champion data‑driven decision‑making by integrating statistical methods, reliability modeling, and accelerated life testing into issue resolution processes.

Drive the development and deployment of automated test systems, custom reliability fixtures, and instrumentation setups, contributing directly to…