Lead Principal Electrical Engineer

Implements the strategic vision for advanced electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to enhance both technical performance and business objectives. Defines component selection strategies and system-wide optimization frameworks, addressing escalations for highly complex component issues. Implements enterprise-level validation strategies, ensuring electrical system performance, reliability, and efficiency meet industry standards. Drives the development of enterprise-wide technical documentation frameworks, ensuring precision, consistency, and strategic alignment with business objectives. Contributes to thought leadership initiatives, driving research and development efforts that position Oracle as a leader in electrical system innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Engineering defines, develops, qualifies, and sustains server, storage, networking, rack-scale AI and compute platforms. The team supports the full platform lifecycle, from concept through deployment and ongoing engineering escalation support. Position Overview We seek a hands-on technical leader to develop AI/GPU, compute, and storage platforms. You will own system-level technical decisions and lead cross-functional teams and external partners from platform definition through production readiness and field issue resolution. This senior individual-contributor role has no people-management responsibilities. This role requires onsite work at the Oracle campus in Santa Clara, California.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, implementation, integration, and validation of internally developed and partner-developed GPU and compute platforms at the server and rack levels, with assignments shifting between development models as program needs change.
• Own requirements, architectural tradeoffs, technical risk resolution, validation strategy, and release criteria for assigned platforms.
• Author and maintain system-level hardware specifications, high-level block diagrams, product concept documents, and configuration guides.
• Lead design reviews across architecture, schematics, board layout, mechanical design, thermal management, power delivery, signal integrity, and firmware.
• Drive platform bring-up and debugging across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Lead system characterization and performance evaluation against requirements and drive system-level improvements.
• Define telemetry, diagnostics, error reporting, and in-service monitoring requirements with cloud operations and security teams.
• Evaluate processors, accelerators, memory, storage, networking, and platform-management components for future platforms.
• Lead technical execution with JDM partners, ODMs, suppliers, and manufacturing, quality, and sourcing teams to meet platform requirements, qualification criteria, and production-readiness milestones.
• Lead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex issues across development, manufacturing, deployment, and fleet operations.
• Mentor engineers across hardware, firmware, systems engineering, and validation.
• Communicate platform status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering leadership and executives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Typically, 16+ years of hardware and systems engineering experience, including recent technical leadership of complex server, AI/GPU, storage, or networking platforms.
• Proven ownership of complex hardware platforms from architecture through qualification and production deployment.
• Proven ability to independently resolve ambiguous problems across hardware, firmware, software, manufacturing, and system configuration.
• Demonstrated ability to technically lead internal engineering teams and external development partners through design decisions, technical issue resolution, and production readiness.
• Strong understanding of x86 and ARM server architectures, CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators, DDR memory, PCIe, high-speed Ethernet, storage, and BMC and firmware architectures.
• Experience reviewing hierarchical schematics, high-density PCB layouts, cross-board connectivity, power architecture, signal integrity, and mechanical and thermal designs.
• Hands-on experience with system bring-up, BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Linux-based diagnostics, scripting, and hardware debugging tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical issues and tradeoffs to executives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA, AMD, or other AI accelerator platforms and supplier test and characterization tools.
• Experience with rack-scale AI/GPU systems, high-speed fabric design, PCIe Gen5/Gen6, CXL, NVLink/NVSwitch, or equivalent technologies.
• Knowledge of hardware and platform security, including roots of trust, secure boot, device attestation, SPDM, TPM, and BMC security.
• Experience designing for and supporting high-volume manufacturing and cloud deployment.
• Experience defining factory test and reliability requirements for cloud hardware platforms.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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