Engineering Project Specialist

About the role

Oura is seeking an experienced and highly organized Engineering Project Specialist (EPS) to support critical project operations that enable hardware product development and NPI execution.

Responsibilities

• Cook up day-to-day prototype operations, including shipping, receiving, storage, inventory management, distribution, re-distribution, and final disposition.
• Maintain chain-of-custody controls to ensure prototype traceability, accountability, and secure handling across internal and external touchpoints.
• Support global coordination for prototype movement across origins and destinations, including logistics providers, external partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain inventory tracking mechanisms, reporting tools, and operating cadences that provide visibility into prototype location, status, history, and ownership.
• Support NPI engineering builds by helping develop EPS tools, templates, and operating cadences for engineering development and build execution across prototype, EVT, DVT, and validation phases.
• Build and maintain practical trackers, dashboards, workbooks, build support templates, and coordination mechanisms that improve execution, decision-making, and follow-through for engineering teams.
• Cook up build readiness and execution with engineering team and vendors, including support for build planning, material and prototype readiness, issue tracking, logistics coordination, and action closure around NPI builds.
• Identify process gaps, shipment risks, inventory discrepancies, readiness issues, and execution blockers early, and support corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Provide hands-on support for in-office shipping, receiving, and prototype coordination activities as needed.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in hardware project support, prototype operations, NPI build coordination, logistics, lab operations, supply chain operations, or related fields.
• Experience contributing to operational workflows, procedures, tools, or support models in a hardware development, lab, operations, or NPI environment.
• Strong project and project coordination skills, including the ability to work across cross-functional initiatives and multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with prototype shipping, inventory control, asset tracking, chain-of-custody processes, or similar operational systems.
• Strong ability to work across internal teams and external partners while driving clarity, follow-through, and accountability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate operational requirements into clear and actionable guidance.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and related collaboration tools.
• Strong spreadsheet capability, including the ability to build and maintain effective Excel and Google Sheets workbooks.
• Comfort with emerging AI tools and the ability to apply them thoughtfully to improve workflows, reporting, or team efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience working with contract manufacturers, logistics vendors, or other external operational partners.
• Familiarity with privacy, security, or controlled-access requirements for pre-release hardware.
• Experience supporting a newly defined role, process, or team capability as it scales.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Smartsheet.

Skills

• Project management
• Operational workflow management
• Inventory control
• Logistics coordination
• Supply chain operations

Benefits

• 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
• Absolutely amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers

Pay

At Oura, we take 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.

Schedule

San Francisco in-office work is required. Up to 20% global travel is required for this position.