[Hiring] Staff AI Engineer @Ōura

Role Description

Oura is rebuilding how it builds software. Every engineer has agentic tooling, and our own pipeline already takes a well-formed ticket to a reviewed, tested commit stack. It runs interactively, headless, and on a cloud sandbox fleet, with its own evals and tracing. We are looking for engineers who use AI as a fundamental building block of both the products we ship and the way we build them.

As a Staff Engineer on the AI Transformation team, you will architect and own the system that turns agentic development from something power users do into the way hundreds of engineers across iOS, Android, backend and AI services ship every day. This includes:

• Spec and intake
• Planning
• Implementation
• Review
• Testing
• CI/CD
• Release
• Observability and incident follow-up

This is a fast-moving, LLM-forward team. We prioritize rapid prototyping, iterative loops and AI-native development, with the speed of a startup and the reach of a product used by millions of members. You can work remotely from anywhere in Europe, or hybrid from our offices in Helsinki, Oulu or Tampere.

You will build the pipeline, measure it, and make it trustworthy enough that teams choose it. Success is measured in validated changes reaching members faster and safer:

• Time to a trustworthy signal
• Escaped defects
• Cost per merged change
• How many squads run on the paved path because it is better, not because they were told to

Qualifications

• An experienced builder: 6+ years building and operating production systems that other engineers depend on, including developer tooling, internal platforms, or AI infrastructure at scale.
• Proven with agentic loops in production: Built and operated agentic coding workflows or autonomous loops in a real engineering organization.
• A whole-lifecycle thinker: Reason about specification, review, testing, CI/CD, release and operations as one system.
• A technical leader: Set direction across teams you don't manage and are trusted with hard calls on architecture and risk.
• Strong on fundamentals: Mobile domain or backend APIs, concurrency, distributed systems, testing, debugging and reliability.
• Technically versatile: Fluency in one domain of backend, iOS, or Android, with a stretch into others.
• Security and privacy conscious: Understand the responsibility of handling sensitive personal data.
• High agency: Thrive in ambiguity and shape the requirements yourself through experimentation.
• Collaborative and resilient: Bring teams along, take feedback, and communicate clearly.

Requirements

• Experience with coding agents at depth: skills, MCP servers, hooks, sub-agent orchestration, headless runs.
• Built evaluation harnesses or benchmarks for coding agents, or LLM-as-judge grading tied to build and test outcomes.
• Experience with sandboxed execution at scale: ephemeral dev environments, VM or container fleets, macOS build infrastructure.
• Background in developer productivity measurement (DORA, SPACE, DX Core 4) and in turning metrics into decisions.
• Shipped to mobile apps or other environments with slow, expensive feedback loops.
• Experience in digital health, wearables, MedTech, or other privacy-sensitive or regulated products.
• Contributions to open-source AI projects, or a portfolio of projects built on the latest agent capabilities.
• Mentored engineers or led an engineering community of practice.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
• An Ōura 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
• Market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location.