Role overview
- PhD with 3+ years of industry or postdoctoral experience, or MSc with 5+ years of industry experience, in machine learning, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, or a related field; healthcare or health‑tech experience preferred.
- Demonstrated success developing deep learning models for large‑scale time‑series or sensor data, ideally physiological or wearable signals, including foundation‑model and self‑supervised/multimodal approaches.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch or Jax), with experience building scalable training and evaluation pipelines.
- Strong grounding in probability, statistics, and experimental design; proven ability to design rigorous evaluations and interpret results from large research or clinical datasets.
- Excellent scientific writing with a record of first‑author, peer‑reviewed publications in top machine learning and digital health venues.
- Collaborative, highly autonomous working style; comfortable operating in an interdisciplinary, globally distributed team and communicating effectively with cross-functional partners.
- Flexibility for occasional meetings across European time zones and willingness to travel for onsite meetings a few times per year.
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 $162,000- $203,000
- Region 2 $150,000 - $187,000
- Region 3 $139,000 - $174,000
A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
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)
As the holiday season approaches, we want to inform you that response times and the holiday process may be slightly extended due to business team schedules. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding during this period and remain committed on keeping you informed as we review applications. Thank you for considering a role at OURA - we look forward to learning more about you!
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What you'll work on
- Drive foundation models for wearable biosignals, setting standards for reusable representations, tooling, and evaluation adopted across multiple health features.
- Design, implement, and validate deep learning approaches for large‑scale physiological time‑series (e.g., PPG, motion, temperature), including self‑supervised and multimodal pretraining; deliver adapters/probes for diverse downstream tasks.
- Lead scientific publications from core modeling and validation work that advance understanding of human physiology and support Oura’s mission to improve health.
- Build and operate scalable data generation, training, and inference pipelines to improve efficiency and reproducibility.
- Lead collaborations with scientists, clinicians, engineers, and product teams to translate research advances into production features that bring value to Oura members.