Principal Design Quality & Reliability Engineer – OCI Data Center Infrastructure
Oracle· enterprise· Healthcare IT· May 28, 2026 · 5mo agoPosted 152 days ago
United States
Full-time
Principal
$150K–$214K est.
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Job description
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.
Key
Responsibilities
Conceptual Design of Electrical Systems:
-Implements the strategic vision for advanced
electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to
enhance both technical performance and business objectives.
-Establishes technical roadmaps for innovations,
ensuring alignment with long-term product strategies and industry advancements.
-Guides the adoption of emerging technologies,
shaping methodologies that optimize server performance, reliability, and
scalability.
-Owns high-level design decisions, balancing
trade-offs between performance, security, reliability, power efficiency,
thermal management, and manufacturability while ensuring future-proofed
solutions.
Detailed Design and Implementation:
-Defines component selection strategies and
system-wide optimization frameworks, ensuring alignment with evolving technical
standards, manufacturing feasibility, and performance requirements.
-Leads high-impact initiatives from concept to
production, leveraging advanced modeling, simulation, and design analysis to
push the boundaries of electrical systems.
-Provides expert consultation in system-wide
design reviews, setting guidelines for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) integration
and board layout to ensure optimized performance, manufacturability, and
cost-effectiveness.
-Addresses escalations for highly complex
component issues, driving strategic decisions on quality, compliance, and
integration to mitigate risks and ensure seamless deployment.
-Serves as a thought leader on the integration of
electrical subsystems, establishing best practices and fostering innovation
across firmware, software, and diagnostics teams.
Testing, Validation, and Debugging:
-Implements enterprise-level validation
strategies, ensuring electrical system performance, reliability, and efficiency
meet industry standards.
-Assists in implementing automation-driven
validation platforms, enhancing scalability, adaptability, and diagnostics
during product lifecycles.
-Leads and mentors teams in executing test plans,
analyzing prototypes, and resolving hardware challenges that impact production
and competitiveness.
-Provides risk assessment and failure analysis,
ensuring electrical systems meet stringent technical and regulatory standards.
-Leads complex sustaining engineering activities,
resolving customer escalations, performing root cause analysis, qualifying
alternate components, and addressing end-of-life issues.
Documentation and Process Development:
-Drives the development of enterprise-wide
technical documentation frameworks, ensuring precision, consistency, and
strategic alignment with business objectives.
-Implements documentation best practices to
streamline product iterations, accelerate development cycles, and enhance
cross-functional collaboration.
-Leads formal design reviews, acting as the
primary technical authority on electrical design trade-offs, ensuring optimal
decision-making and long-term scalability.
Continuous Learning and Innovation:
-Contributes to thought leadership initiatives,
driving research and development efforts that position Oracle as a leader in
electrical system innovation.
-Participates in expert engineering communities,
fostering a culture of technical excellence through mentorship,
cross-functional knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement programs.
-Drives high-impact innovation initiatives,
leveraging deep domain expertise to influence long-term technology roadmaps and
competitive differentiation.
Additional Responsibilities (as needed)
Electromagnetic Compatibility:
-Shapes the compliance strategy for electrical
hardware systems, ensuring alignment with complex global safety,
electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and environmental regulations to enable
product scalability and sustained market access.
-Advises executive and cross-functional leadership
on compliance risks and opportunities, drives the early integration of
regulatory requirements into hardware architecture, and establishes frameworks
for rigorous, scalable pre-compliance testing and certification readiness.
-Leads organizational readiness for regulatory
change by interpreting emerging global standards, influencing internal design
and documentation practices, and developing enterprise-wide best practices that
ensure compliance is embedded as a core product development capability.
-Develops internal tools to manage compliance
documentation.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and provides direction on timelines,
deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or
initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and
adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or
timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and external
stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships
with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities
for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and
incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving
efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to
leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel
issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that
prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise
to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the
advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g.,
conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and
evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends,
technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current
with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing,
promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive
advancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops innovative solutions and drives the
implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates
effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to
enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs
and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding
talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert
knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate
interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with
organizational talent strategy.
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. Career Level - IC5
Implements the strategic vision for advanced electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to enhance both technical performance and business objectives.
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