Lead Principal Electrical Engineer

Oracle • Santa Clara, CA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Engineering defines, develops, qualifies, and sustains server, storage, networking, rack-scale AI, and compute platforms across the full platform lifecycle, from concept through deployment and engineering escalation support. This senior individual-contributor role seeks a hands-on technical leader to develop AI/GPU, compute, and storage platforms. The engineer owns system-level technical decisions and leads cross-functional teams and external partners from platform definition through production readiness and field issue resolution. The role has no people-management responsibilities and requires onsite work at Oracle’s campus in Santa Clara, California.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 the ability to explain technical issues and tradeoffs to executives.
• Must work onsite at the Oracle campus in Santa Clara, California.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, implementation, integration, and validation of internally developed and partner-developed GPU and compute platforms at server and rack levels.
• 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 covering 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 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• 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, with flexible or accrued vacation depending on position eligibility.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal