# Hardware Reliability Engineer

Hiring organization: [Oura](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/oura)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/40f7eab8-1d89-4756-8a5b-eb5b7192dafd

Listed on Oura's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Mid
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 172000 – 203000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves leading hardware reliability testing and validation for Oura's wearable devices, ensuring durability and real-world performance. It suits engineers with deep experience designing and executing reliability programs who want to drive product quality from lab to field across a global manufacturing supply chain.

_Our summary, not Oura's wording._

## Skills named

Failure Analysis

## Required

- 5+ years hardware reliability, validation, or test engineering in consumer electronics, wearables, or small electromechanical systems
- Ability to design and execute reliability tests with defined stress conditions, aging metrics, and acceptance criteria
- Hands-on experience with mechanical, environmental, and electrical reliability programs
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with failure analysis experience
- Ability to interpret test data and communicate results to cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with industry reliability standards and methodologies

## Nice to have

- Experience with wearable or portable consumer devices in compact form factors
- Experience working with contract manufacturers
- Experience conducting DFMEA or similar risk-identification methodologies during early product development
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability Engineering, or related discipline

Apply on Oura's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura/jobs/4371707009