Research Scientist

We are seeking a Research Scientist to join our Health Science team, with a specific focus on candidates who bring proven experience conducting scientific and clinical studies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In this role, you will help Oura deepen its scientific and clinical presence in the UAE by designing high-quality studies, building strong external collaborations, generating publishable evidence, and translating findings into insights that support research, product development, and broader business priorities.

This is a remote role based in the U.S with a strong preference for candidates based on the East Coast (Eastern Time). Oura’s remote employees in major cities like Boston, DC, and New York occasionally gather informally at local co-working locations.

• →Lead the design of scientific and clinical studies, including observational, prospective, retrospective, and interventional study types, with a particular emphasis on work involving UAE-based collaborators, sites, or populations.
• →Analyze and interpret complex wearable, physiological, clinical, and multimodal biobehavioral datasets to generate meaningful health insights.
• →Build reproducible analytical workflows and communicate results clearly through notebooks, figures, reports, manuscripts, and presentations.
• →Apply rigorous statistical and computational methods, including time-series analysis, regression or mixed models, Bayesian methods, and machine-learning approaches where appropriate.
• →Contribute to manuscripts, abstracts, reports, patents, and other scientific dissemination activities.
• →Provide scientific and clinical input that helps Oura make evidence-based decisions across research, product, and partnership efforts.
• →Work cross-functionally with Science, Research Operations, Product, Clinical, Regulatory, and data partners to move studies from concept to execution and insight generation.

• A PhD in a relevant field such as psychology, neuroscience, behavioral or health sciences, sleep and circadian biology, physiology, cardiometabolic health, endocrinology, women’s health, digital health, biostatistics, biomedical engineering, computer science, data science, or a related discipline.
• A strong track record of leading scientific research from hypothesis through publication, including first-authored peer-reviewed work.
• Demonstrated experience designing and running human subjects studies, including protocol development, endpoint selection, ethics or IRB processes, and scientific dissemination.
• Advanced programming and analytical skills in Python and/or R, with experience using SQL and working on complex physiological, wearable, time series, or multimodal biobehavioral datasets.
• Experience with reproducible computational workflows using tools such as Jupyter, RStudio, Git, Docker, and/or Conda.
• Fluency in statistical modeling and scientific data visualization, with the ability to turn complex analyses into clear, decision-ready insights.
• A self-directed, collaborative, and translational mindset that connects rigorous science to practical health applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A proven record of conducting science and/or clinical studies in the UAE, with the judgment and credibility to work effectively with regional collaborators and stakeholders.
• Experience working at the intersection of industry and academia.