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Salary: USD 172,550 - 203,000 / annual
Oura is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Designer, Mechanics to design and develop the fixtures, jigs, and manufacturing stations that enable production of the Oura Ring at scale. This role sits at the intersection of product design and manufacturing, translating industrial and product design CAD into robust manufacturing solutions.
You will own fixture and station design from concept through validation and mass production, ensuring every part is consistently located, held, moved, and presented across all 10 ring sizes. Key responsibilities include:
• Analyze industrial and product design CAD to develop jig and fixture concepts, defining part and fixture datums, locating and constraint schemes, no-contact and cosmetic zones, and size-family strategy across 10 ring sizes before vendor DFM lock.
• Drive renderings for machine and station concepts including line layout, operator ergonomics, part flow, guarding, size changeover, and semi-automated versus fully-automated variants, enabling industrial design to see how parts will be held and touched before design lock.
• Maintain the fixture and station CAD library and datum scheme documentation across programs to carry learnings from one architecture to the next.
• Participate in DFM and DFA reviews with industrial design, product design, and contract manufacturers, providing fixturing and handling feedback specific to surfaces, datums, and tolerances.
• Support station buy-off and process qualification jointly with Process Engineering, owning fixture and station acceptance criteria.
• Work with the design studio and prototype workshop during concept phases, and at the NPI site during build events.
• Travel up to 30% internationally to manufacturing partner sites in Asia.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days per week in the San Francisco office.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 5+ years in fixture, tooling, automation, or manufacturing design engineering for precision consumer hardware, wearables, medical devices, or optics
• BS or MS in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Product Design Engineering, or equivalent design/engineering background
• Demonstrated experience designing fixtures, jigs, carriers, and stations that shipped into contract manufacturers and ran at mass production scale, including config or variant changeover
• Deep CAD expertise (SolidWorks or NX) with strong surfacing skills for working from industrial and product design geometry
• Strong GD&T and datum scheme design; ability to build and defend tolerance stack-ups including fixture and process contributors
• Experience selecting fixture materials and surface treatments for contact with glass, ceramic, titanium, and flexible circuits
• Rapid prototyping skills (3D printing, basic machining) and comfort in a workshop
• Ability to read and challenge vendor DFMs and measurement reports (CMM, optical) and run DFM loops to closure
• Comfort on factory floors, in labs, and in design studios; physical presence where work happens is required
• Willingness to travel up to 30% internationally
NICE TO HAVE:
• Experience with wearables, miniaturized, or high-precision consumer electronics with variant configurations
• Experience with adhesive dispensing, pressure-sensitive adhesive placement, hot bar and 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 equipment with Asian equipment suppliers
• Working knowledge of DOE, FA, and PFMEA sufficient to partner with Process Engineering
• Working proficiency in Mandarin or other languages relevant to manufacturing partner regions
