May 21, 2026 Melissa Kashouh

Oura – Staff FEA Engineer

  • Anywhere

● TALENT ONE MARKET INTELLIGENCE: OURA

πŸ”₯ TALENT LIQUIDITY:
Extremely tight. The intersection of FEA expertise and wearable-scale miniaturization is a niche with a 1:12 supply-to-demand ratio.

πŸ“ˆ ALPHA SIGNAL:
Hardware reliability is the moat for this company. By solving the structural failure rate, you directly protect the company’s bottom line, which secures your equity value and ensures your mortgage is backed by a high-margin, high-growth product.

EST. COMPENSATION
$160k – $200k Base + Equity + Performance Bonus
SECTOR HEAT
85.8/100
CANDIDATE PROTOCOL: Focus your portfolio on non-linear material behavior and drop-test simulation. If you have solved for fatigue in small-form-factor enclosures, you are the top 1%.

Official Role Description: Oura

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 β€” both in and out of the office. 

ŌURA is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented FEA (Finite Element Analysis) Engineer to join our product design engineering team. You will be responsible for performing structural and dynamic simulations to optimize the design and performance of our wearable devices. Your work will directly impact the reliability, durability, and user comfort of our products.

What You’ll Do:

  • FEA Modeling: Develop and validate FEA models of components and assemblies using appropriate software (e.g., ANSYS, Abaqus).
  • Structural Analysis: Perform linear and non-linear static and dynamic analyses to evaluate stress, strain, and deformation under various loading conditions
  • Drop Test Simulation: Simulate drop test scenarios to evaluate product robustness and identify potential failure points.
  • Optimization: Use FEA results to guide design optimization and improve product performance, reliability, and weight.
  • Correlation: Help drive correlation of FEA results with physical test data to validate models and improve accuracy.
  • Documentation: Prepare clear and concise reports summarizing FEA results and recommendations.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product design engineers, mechanical engineers, and materials engineers.
  • Software Development: Develop and maintain scripts and workflows to automate FEA processes.

We would love to consider you for this role if you have:

  • 7+ years of experience as an FEA Engineer, preferably in consumer electronics, wearable devices, or a related industry.
  • Proficiency in using FEA software such as ANSYS, Abaqus, or similar.
  • Strong understanding of solid mechanics principles, including stress, strain, elasticity, and plasticity.
  • Experience with linear and non-linear static and dynamic analysis.
  • Experience with model validation and correlation with test data.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently 

Nice to have:

  • Experience with FEA simulation of wearable devices or small, complex electronic products.
  • Experience with transient thermal analyses to optimize thermal performance and manage heat dissipation.
  • Deep knowledge of material properties and failure criteria.
  • Experience with optimization techniques.
  • Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python.
  • Experience with high-performance computing (HPC).

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. These ranges may be modified in the future.

  • Region 1 Range (SF): $198,000 – $233,000
  • Region 2 Range (SD): $180,000 – $212,000

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. 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.

Disclaimer: Beware of fake job offers!
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Melissa Kashouh

Founder of Talent One I help enterprise leaders and investors forecast hiring surges, talent shortages, and market friction up to six weeks in advance using our patent-pending predictive intelligence platform. As the founder of Talent One AI (the intelligence layer of The Talent One), I built a system that turns lagging recruiting data into actionable foresight β€” helping companies reduce technical debt, protect employer brand, and hire ahead of the curve. Based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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