Senior AI Engineer

At Oura, our mission is to empower every person to own their inner potential. With our award-winning Oura Ring and app, we help over 2.5 million people turn insights about sleep, activity, and readiness into healthier, more balanced lives. We believe that starts from within — by creating a culture where our team feels supported, included, and inspired to do their best work. Our values guide how we show up for each other and our community every day.

We have offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. Oura employees in other major cities (like Boston and New York) occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to drive evaluation and model development within Oura’s AI Advisor and custom model initiatives. This role will focus on building novel evaluation systems and tooling, strengthening Oura’s position as a leader in AI-driven health insights, and developing custom AI models that power first-in-class recommendations.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement evaluation systems and tooling to validate Oura’s custom AI models and Advisor
• Develop novel evaluation methods to measure grounding, reliability, and actionability of LLM and agentic systems
• Build and optimize custom AI models through fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and quantization
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to balance cutting-edge research with practical engineering impact
• Lead initiatives that reduce Oura’s dependency on external AI SaaS providers and accelerate model development

This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, San Diego, or New York. 

We would love to have you on our team if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in production AI/ML work
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML/AI frameworks
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, CDK)
• Experience with fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and deployment of LLMs or agentic systems
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive product vision
• Initiative and self-direction in research and scientific exploration

Preferred skills:

• Experience leading AI projects
• Experience building AI agents and deploying them to production
• Experience building multimodal GenAI systems

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.

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

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  $203,000- $244,000
• Region 2  $187,000- $224,000
• Region 3  $174,000- $209,000

A recruiter can determine your zones/tiers based on your US location.

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)

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.

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