Senior AI Scientist

ŌURA

Senior AI Scientist at Ōura developing AI solutions for health experiences. Focus on production AI and ML systems across a range of initiatives.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New York, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $203,000 - $233,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI pipelinesML pipelinesbackend servicesevaluation systemsLLM systemsagentic systemsAPIsPythonfine-tuningknowledge distillation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationautonomyproblem definitionresearchmonitoringiterationdata-driven insightscollaborationcreativity