Oura
Senior Human Factors Researcher
Hybrid - San Francisco, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$173k-$203kDetected 26 days ago
PythonMATLABMachine LearningData ScienceComputer VisionStatisticsUX ResearchProduct ManagementHardware DesignResearchExperimental DesignCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
- 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.
- You will be expected to be in the SF or Helsinki office 2-3 days a week depending on the schedule, potentially more days if running a study.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end research. Plan and conduct human factors and ergonomics evaluations across the full product lifecycle, focused on how users physically interact with wearable hardware and how form factor choices perform against the underlying human data.
- Collaborate deeply across functions.
- Translate data into design requirements. Convert anthropometric and human modeling findings into concrete, actionable parameters, sensor placement, sizing, geometry, and materials.
- Deliver insights that drive decisions. Produce high-impact findings that directly shape hardware decisions and support critical product validation milestones.
- Advocate for the value of human factors in the design and development process.
- Own end-to-end research.
- Plan and conduct human factors and ergonomics evaluations across the full product lifecycle, focused on how users physically interact with wearable hardware and how form factor choices perform against the underlying human data.
- Communication: Proven ability to communicate technical findings clearly to creative, engineering, and other stakeholders, teammates, and external partners.
- Excited (or at least willing) to work early hours PST, 7-8am is generally fair game, to collaborate across time zones.
- Background in global user research and inclusive design practices.
Requirements
- Proficiency analyzing and deriving insights from both qualitative and quantitative data, including analyzing human body data in Python, R, or MATLAB to support form factor evaluation and design recommendations.
- Contribute to the documentation required for quality assurance and future regulatory submissions.
- Analysis: Proficiency analyzing and deriving insights from both qualitative and quantitative data, including analyzing human body data in Python, R, or MATLAB to support form factor evaluation and design recommendations.
- Experience with computational geometry or 3D analysis tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper, or Python geometry libraries.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity packages
Benefits
- Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
- Prior experience in health tech, consumer electronics, or fitness wearables.
- 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.
Company info
- At Oura, we care about you and your well-being.
Equal opportunity
- $147,900 - $174,000
- A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.
- Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
This listing is sourced directly from Oura's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.