Lead Principal Engineer for Data Center Architecture

Oracle•United States,

3d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

This position is for an experienced data center architect who will address complex infrastructure challenges across sites, campuses, and colocation facilities. The role supports high-density AI deployments through site selection, capacity planning, power and cooling design, connectivity planning, and multi-site readiness assessments. The engineer will develop deployment strategies and flexible infrastructure options that can adapt as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve, and will communicate architectural decisions, risks, commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of modern data center and campus architecture, including power, cooling, networking, storage connectivity, physical infrastructure, colocation considerations, and operational resiliency.
Experience developing AI infrastructure deployment strategies across sites, campuses, or colocation environments.
Ability to evaluate site and data-hall constraints, including physical layout, rack placement, power availability, cooling capacity, density limits, and serviceability.
Experience with capacity planning and rack-power modeling for high-density AI infrastructure.
Strong understanding of high-performance networking, scale-out connectivity, and storage-related network demand for AI environments.
Ability to develop flexible infrastructure options and late-binding strategies as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions, deployment risks, customer commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
Ability to coordinate effectively across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams.

Nice To Haves

8+ years of experience in data center architecture, infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, or large-scale cloud infrastructure deployment.
Experience with AI labs, high-density AI infrastructure, HPC environments, or large-scale cloud campuses.
Experience with site selection, colocation evaluation, campus planning, and data-hall layout optimization.
Experience with power and cooling design, power capping, thermal assessment, densification, and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
Experience evaluating multi-site deployment readiness and managing platform or capacity pivots.
Familiarity with accelerator platform requirements and their implications for power, cooling, networking, storage, and facility design.

Responsibilities

Develop AI infrastructure deployment strategies across sites, campuses, or colocation environments.
Evaluate site and data-hall constraints, including physical layout, rack placement, power availability, cooling capacity, density limits, and serviceability.
Plan capacity and model rack power for high-density AI infrastructure.
Assess high-performance networking, scale-out connectivity, and storage-related network demand for AI environments.
Develop flexible infrastructure options and late-binding strategies as technology, capacity, and customer requirements evolve.
Communicate architectural decisions, deployment risks, customer commitments, and tradeoffs to technical and executive stakeholders.
Coordinate across facilities, network, storage, colocation, hardware, software, and business teams.
Support multi-site readiness assessments for high-density AI deployments.

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 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.
Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a maximum of 112 hours.
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.