Lead Principal Electrical Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 16+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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.
- Proven 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 explaining technical issues and tradeoffs to executives.
Nice to have
- 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.
Full 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.Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Engineering defines, develops, qualifies, and sustains server, storage, networking, rack-scale AI and compute platforms. The team supports the full platform lifecycle, from concept through deployment and ongoing engineering escalation support.
Position Overview
We seek a hands-on technical leader to develop AI/GPU, compute, and storage platforms. You will own system-level technical decisions and lead cross-functional teams and external partners from platform definition through production readiness and field issue resolution. This senior individual-contributor role has no people-management responsibilities. This role requires onsite work at the Oracle campus in Santa Clara, California.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, implementation, integration, and validation of internally developed and partner-developed GPU and compute platforms at the server and rack levels, with assignments shifting between development models as program needs change.
- 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 across 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 platform requirements, qualification criteria, and production-readiness milestones.