Principal Design Quality & Reliability Engineer – OCI Data Center Infrastructure

About the Role

Implements the strategic vision for advanced electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to enhance both technical performance and business objectives. Drives enterprise-level validation strategies and contributes to thought leadership initiatives that position Oracle as a leader in electrical system innovation.

Responsibilities

• Conceptual Design of Electrical Systems:
  • 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.
  • Provides expert consultation in system-wide design reviews, setting guidelines for 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.
  • Serves as a thought leader on the integration of electrical subsystems, establishing best practices 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.
  • Provides risk assessment and failure analysis to ensure compliance with 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.
• Electromagnetic Compatibility:
  • Shapes the compliance strategy for electrical hardware systems, ensuring alignment with global safety, EMC, and environmental regulations.
  • Advises executive and cross-functional leadership on compliance risks and opportunities.
  • Drives early integration of regulatory requirements into hardware architecture and establishes frameworks for pre-compliance testing and certification readiness.
  • Leads organizational readiness for regulatory change and develops enterprise-wide best practices.
  • Develops internal tools to manage compliance documentation.
• Planning & Execution:
  • Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets for critical high-impact projects.
  • Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities.
• 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.
  • 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.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation:
  • Contributes to thought leadership initiatives, driving research and development efforts.
  • Participates in expert engineering communities, fostering a culture of technical excellence through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
  • Drives high-impact innovation initiatives, leveraging deep domain expertise to influence long-term technology roadmaps.
  • Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards.
  • Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase efficiency and effectiveness of processes.
  • Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and designs 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 and hiring decisions.

Requirements

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

Pay

Hiring range in USD: $146,300 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off:
  • Flexible Vacation for salaried employees
  • Accrued Vacation for other eligible employees (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; prorated for part-time employees working 20-34 hours per week)
  • 11 paid holidays
• 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshing each calendar year (carryover up to 112 hours)
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal services
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance