Senior AI Scientist

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work - both in and out of the office.


We are looking for a Senior AI Scientist to help define and build the next generation of AI-powered health experiences at Oura. This is a hybrid role that blends AI engineering, ML deployment, backend engineering, and applied science - sitting at the intersection of cutting-edge AI techniques and real consumer impact. You will work on a small, high-ownership team with direct visibility to senior leadership, driving the evaluation, development, and deployment of custom AI solutions and agentic systems that power Oura's AI Advisor.

This is not a research role. You will be expected to move from idea to production, own systems end to end, and proactively identify what to build next.

What You Will Do

• Build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI and ML pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure that support Oura's AI Advisor and custom model initiatives
• Design and implement evaluation systems and tooling to measure grounding, reliability, and actionability of LLM and agentic systems in production
• Develop and deploy agentic AI systems in production
• Lead initiatives end to end - from problem definition and research through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate data-driven insights into shipped product features
• Build and optimize custom AI solutions through fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and quantization
• Help build Oura as a leader in AI expertise and infrastructure
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the product and bring your own ideas to the table

This is a remote US role.

Requirements

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

• 5+ years of experience in production AI or ML work - you have shipped models and systems used by real external users
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals - you have built APIs, infrastructure, logging, and monitoring systems for production ML or AI pipelines and are comfortable owning them on-call
• Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and evaluating LLM or agentic systems in production environments
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML and AI frameworks
• Experience leading projects end to end - from research and problem definition through deployment and monitoring
• The ability to operate with high autonomy in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment where you define your own roadmap
• Strong communication skills - you can distill complex technical work for non-technical stakeholders including senior leadership

Preferred skills:

• Experience building AI agents and multi-step agentic workflows
• Experience with fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, or quantization of LLMs
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, CDK)
• Background in consumer health, wellness, or personalization AI

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 $203,000 - $233,000
• Region 2 $187,000 - $215,000
• Region 3 $174,000 - $200,000

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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