
Senior AI Engineer at Oura. 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 have offices in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. Oura employees in other major cities (like Boston and New York) occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.. We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to drive evaluation and model development within Oura’s AI Advisor and custom model initiatives. This role will focus on building novel evaluation systems and tooling, strengthening Oura’s position as a leader in AI-driven health insights, and developing custom AI models that power first-in-class recommendations.. What You Will Do. . Design and implement evaluation systems and tooling to validate Oura’s custom AI models and Advisor. . Develop novel evaluation methods to measure grounding, reliability, and actionability of LLM and agentic systems. . Build and optimize custom AI models through fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and quantization. . Partner with Product and Engineering teams to balance cutting-edge research with practical engineering impact. . Lead initiatives that reduce Oura’s dependency on external AI SaaS providers and accelerate model development. . This is a remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based in San Francisco, San Diego, or New York. . We would love to have you on our team if you have:. . 5+ years of experience in production AI/ML work. . Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML/AI frameworks. . Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, CDK). . Experience with fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and deployment of LLMs or agentic systems. . Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive product vision. . Initiative and self-direction in research and scientific exploration. . Preferred skills:. . Experience leading AI projects. . Experience building AI agents and deploying them to production. . Experience building multimodal GenAI systems. . Company Location: United States.