Senior Data Scientist

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 are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to play a key role in advancing our physiological feature pipeline and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with biomarker and wearable health data. This role is ideal for an experienced ML expert who has clinical research expertise around health data, thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, and brings a balance of hands-on technical depth and strategic thinking.

You will work within our Product Science team, and we seek a data scientist who thrives in dynamic environments and is prepared to pioneer in uncharted territory accompanied with a creative approach to algorithmic development.

This is a remote U.S. role with a strong preference for candidates based in the East Coast. Oura employees in major cities (like Boston and New York) will occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.

What you will do: 

• Contribute to development of new human physiology based features and new sensor technology
• Transform multi-sensor data into actionable health metrics by combining insights from diverse biosensing technologies with state-of-the-art data science methodologies
• Develop reusable data analytics tools, which can be deployed at scale
• Actively participate in developing and refining the team’s strategic roadmap, innovating and prioritising initiatives, and aligning project goals with broader organisational objectives 
• Lead data collections, write scientific reports, publications and white papers, and present findings internally (leadership and stakeholders) and externally (conferences, etc.)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and overseas stakeholders

Requirements

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

• Have 6+ years of experience in Data Science with sparse real world data, most likely biomarker and wearable data with excellent physiological understanding
• Considers Python as their Mother Tongue and has a strong track record in developing deep learning and multimodal data fusion for sequential data. 
• Experience with  forecasting models, optimization models, statistical analysis, and running simulations.
• Have an advanced degree (Masters) in a STEM-related field (e.g. engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics) or equivalent work experience
• Expert level experience building and deploying data science products using AWS tools, SQL, GitHub, and Pytorch and knowledge of C++
• Strong project management experience and is comfortable working with a diverse, distributed and talented group of team members
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrates a proactive mindset, thriving in uncharted territories with the resilience and creativity to navigate ambiguity and deliver solutions in the face of obstacles

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.

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 $162,000 - $203,000
• Region 2 $150,000 - $187,000
• Region 3 $139,000 -  $174,000

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

We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Arkansas (AR), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), Rhode Island (RI), 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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