Distinguished Architect, OCI Compute & AI Infrastructure

Oracle•United States,

About The Position

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] [[email protected]] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Requirements

Distinguished Architect, OCI Compute & AI Infrastructure
Define the end-to-end technical architecture and multi-year evolution of OCI's Compute and AI infrastructure platform.
Drive architectural decisions that span servers, accelerators, host systems, networking, racks, clusters, datacenters, and cloud control-plane interfaces.
Identify cross-layer opportunities where coordinated hardware, networking, software, and datacenter design can materially improve performance, reliability, cost, efficiency, or deployment velocity.
Establish architectural principles and mechanisms that allow OCI infrastructure to scale across generations of CPUs, GPUs and accelerators, network technologies, server platforms, and datacenter designs.
Anticipate technology inflection points and translate them into concrete platform investments and engineering roadmaps.
Make architecture decisions that account for hyperscale realities, including fleet heterogeneity, hardware lifecycle, fault domains, power and cooling constraints, supply chain, regional expansion, and total cost of ownership.
Serve as a senior technical leader across Compute, Server & Hardware Engineering, Cluster Networking, Datacenter Engineering, and AI Infrastructure.
Resolve high-impact architectural issues where the optimal system-level solution crosses individual organizational ownership boundaries.
Build alignment among senior engineers, engineering leaders, product teams, operations teams, and executives around difficult technical tradeoffs.
Create durable technical mechanisms, including architecture reviews, design principles, interfaces, standards, and operating models, that improve decision-making across the organization.
Partner closely with other Distinguished Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and senior technical leaders across OCI to ensure infrastructure architecture is coherent end to end.
Provide technical leadership on major infrastructure investments and decisions with long-term impact on OCI's cost structure, capacity, performance, and competitive differentiation.
Shape architectures for large-scale CPU and accelerator-based compute fleets, including high-density AI clusters.
Drive system-level optimization across compute, memory, storage, networking, power, cooling, and physical infrastructure.
Influence server and rack architecture, cluster topology, network design, fault domains, capacity models, and deployment architecture.
Ensure infrastructure is designed for extreme scale while preserving isolation, security, serviceability, operability, and predictable performance.
Develop architectures that enable rapid introduction of new hardware platforms and technologies without creating unsustainable operational complexity.
Design for the realities of hyperscale operation, including partial failure, fleet diversity, capacity pressure, rapid expansion, hardware refresh, and large-scale recovery.
Personally engage in the organization's most complex and consequential technical challenges.
Dive deeply across hardware and software boundaries to identify root causes and systemic solutions.
Use data, modeling, prototypes, and first-principles analysis to evaluate architectural alternatives.
Identify problems that may be invisible at small scale but become dominant at hyperscale.
Challenge assumptions and simplify systems where complexity has accumulated across organizational or technology boundaries.
Lead technical response and architectural remediation for systemic reliability, performance, scalability, or efficiency issues when needed.
Translate lessons from large-scale production operations into better architecture, stronger standards, and simpler systems.
Mentor and develop Principal and Distinguished-level technical leaders across the organization.
Create a culture of rigorous engineering judgment, clear technical writing, and evidence-based decision-making.
Raise the quality of architecture and design reviews across multiple engineering organizations.
Identify gaps in technical leadership and incubate new technical initiatives that may not have an obvious organizational home.
Represent OCI's infrastructure architecture with key technology partners and, where appropriate, the broader technical community.
Help establish a common architectural vocabulary and set of principles across hardware, networking, systems software, and datacenter engineering.

Responsibilities

Define the end-to-end technical architecture and multi-year evolution of OCI's Compute and AI infrastructure platform.
Drive architectural decisions that span servers, accelerators, host systems, networking, racks, clusters, datacenters, and cloud control-plane interfaces.
Identify cross-layer opportunities where coordinated hardware, networking, software, and datacenter design can materially improve performance, reliability, cost, efficiency, or deployment velocity.
Establish architectural principles and mechanisms that allow OCI infrastructure to scale across generations of CPUs, GPUs and accelerators, network technologies, server platforms, and datacenter designs.
Anticipate technology inflection points and translate them into concrete platform investments and engineering roadmaps.
Make architecture decisions that account for hyperscale realities, including fleet heterogeneity, hardware lifecycle, fault domains, power and cooling constraints, supply chain, regional expansion, and total cost of ownership.
Serve as a senior technical leader across Compute, Server & Hardware Engineering, Cluster Networking, Datacenter Engineering, and AI Infrastructure.
Resolve high-impact architectural issues where the optimal system-level solution crosses individual organizational ownership boundaries.
Build alignment among senior engineers, engineering leaders, product teams, operations teams, and executives around difficult technical tradeoffs.
Create durable technical mechanisms, including architecture reviews, design principles, interfaces, standards, and operating models, that improve decision-making across the organization.
Partner closely with other Distinguished Architects, Distinguished Engineers, and senior technical leaders across OCI to ensure infrastructure architecture is coherent end to end.
Provide technical leadership on major infrastructure investments and decisions with long-term impact on OCI's cost structure, capacity, performance, and competitive differentiation.
Shape architectures for large-scale CPU and accelerator-based compute fleets, including high-density AI clusters.
Drive system-level optimization across compute, memory, storage, networking, power, cooling, and physical infrastructure.
Influence server and rack architecture, cluster topology, network design, fault domains, capacity models, and deployment architecture.
Ensure infrastructure is designed for extreme scale while preserving isolation, security, serviceability, operability, and predictable performance.
Develop architectures that enable rapid introduction of new hardware platforms and technologies without creating unsustainable operational complexity.
Design for the realities of hyperscale operation, including partial failure, fleet diversity, capacity pressure, rapid expansion, hardware refresh, and large-scale recovery.
Personally engage in the organization's most complex and consequential technical challenges.
Dive deeply across hardware and software boundaries to identify root causes and systemic solutions.
Use data, modeling, prototypes, and first-principles analysis to evaluate architectural alternatives.
Identify problems that may be invisible at small scale but become dominant at hyperscale.
Challenge assumptions and simplify systems where complexity has accumulated across organizational or technology boundaries.
Lead technical response and architectural remediation for systemic reliability, performance, scalability, or efficiency issues when needed.
Translate lessons from large-scale production operations into better architecture, stronger standards, and simpler systems.
Mentor and develop Principal and Distinguished-level technical leaders across the organization.
Create a culture of rigorous engineering judgment, clear technical writing, and evidence-based decision-making.
Raise the quality of architecture and design reviews across multiple engineering organizations.
Identify gaps in technical leadership and incubate new technical initiatives that may not have an obvious organizational home.
Represent OCI's infrastructure architecture with key technology partners and, where appropriate, the broader technical community.
Help establish a common architectural vocabulary and set of principles across hardware, networking, systems software, and datacenter engineering.