# Photonics Sensing Architect

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 collaborative, impact-driven Photonics Sensing Engineer who will help engineer, evaluate, and design new optical technologies. You will be working closely with our Director of Hardware Sensing out of the San Francisco office to help define, validate, and translate requirements alongside hardware and cross-functional stakeholders. What You Will Do: Sensor Architecture & Design Define, prototype and validate new sensors (optical like raman, spectroscopy, photoacoustic, QCL etc) for low-power wearable plat

- **Id**: 1019269
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/oura-photonics-sensing-architect>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T01:38:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:13:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5927
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- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Consumer Health Apps

## Company

- **Id**: 63542
- **Name**: Oura
- **Domain**: oura.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/oura>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.467
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 65
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 216000
- **Max**: 255000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 255000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Iowa** — Kind: city
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## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T02:36:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 66
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.88
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 65
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 255000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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