# Senior Manufacturing Designer, Mechanics

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f1e24869-0391-40d5-8759-ef88722d8991

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 172550 – 203000 USD per year

## Summary

This role designs the fixtures, jigs, and manufacturing stations that produce Oura's wearable rings at scale, working across product design intent and mass-production reality. It suits someone with 5+ years shipping precision hardware fixtures through contract manufacturers who can own designs from concept through validation, combining CAD expertise with factory-floor judgment.

_Our summary, not Oura's wording._

## Skills named

3D Printing, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), Siemens NX, SolidWorks, Tolerance Stack-up Analysis

## Required

- 5+ years fixture, tooling, automation, or manufacturing design for precision consumer hardware, wearables, medical devices, or optics
- BS or MS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Product Design Engineering or equivalent background
- Designed and shipped fixtures, jigs, carriers, and stations at mass production scale with configuration or variant changeover
- Proficiency in SolidWorks or NX with strong surfacing skills
- Strong GD&T and datum scheme design with tolerance stack-up experience
- Experience selecting fixture materials and surface treatments for glass, ceramic, titanium, and flexible circuits
- Rapid prototyping skills including 3D printing and basic machining
- Ability to read and challenge vendor DFMs and measurement reports
- Comfort working on factory floors, in labs, and in design studios
- Willingness to travel up to 30% including internationally to Asian manufacturing sites
- Hybrid: 2-3 days per week in San Francisco office

## Nice to have

- Experience with wearable, miniaturized, or high-precision consumer electronics with variant configurations
- Experience with adhesive dispensing, PSA placement, hot bar soldering, laser soldering, flex bending, or cover glass assembly stations
- Vision and inspection fixture design including camera and lighting integration
- Experience scaling semi-automated equipment to fully automated with Asian suppliers
- Working knowledge of DOE, FA, and PFMEA
- Mandarin or language relevant to manufacturing partner regions

Apply on Oura's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oura/jobs/4434504009