Principal Electrical Engineer

Principal Electrical Engineer

United States

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Job Identification 341328

Job Category Product and Research

Posting Date 09/30/2026, 03:41 PM

Role Individual Contributor

Job Type Regular Employee

Does this position require a security clearance? No

Years 6 to 10+ years

Applicants Less than 10 applicants

Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job 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.

Responsibilities

• Key

Responsibilities

Conceptual Design of Electrical Systems:

• Implements the strategic vision for advanced

• electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to

• enhance both technical performance and business objectives.

• 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 to push the boundaries of electrical systems.

• Provides expert consultation in system-wide

• design reviews, setting guidelines for Computer-Aided Design (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 to mitigate risks and ensure seamless deployment.

• Serves as a thought leader on the integration of

• electrical subsystems, establishing best practices and fostering innovation

• 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 that impact production

• and competitiveness.

• Provides risk assessment and failure analysis,

• ensuring electrical systems meet 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, ensuring optimal

• decision-making and long-term scalability.

Continuous Learning and Innovation:

• Contributes to thought leadership initiatives,

• driving research and development efforts that position Oracle as a leader in

• electrical system innovation.

• Participates in expert engineering communities,

• fostering a culture of technical excellence through mentorship,

• cross-functional knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement programs.

• Drives high-impact innovation initiatives,

• leveraging deep domain expertise to influence long-term technology roadmaps and

• competitive differentiation.

• Additional Responsibilities (as needed)

Electromagnetic Compatibility:

• Shapes the compliance strategy for electrical

• hardware systems, ensuring alignment with complex global safety,

• em electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and environmental regulations to enable

• product scalability and sustained market access.

• Advises executive and cross-functional leadership

• on compliance risks and opportunities, drives the early integration of

• regulatory requirements into hardware architecture, and establishes frameworks

• for rigorous, scalable pre-compliance testing and certification readiness.

• Leads organizational readiness for regulatory

• change by interpreting emerging global standards, influencing internal design

• and documentation practices, and developing enterprise-wide best practices that

• essure compliance is embedded as a core product development capability.

• Develops internal tools to manage compliance

• documentation.

• Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Manages and provides direction on timelines,
• deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or
• initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and
• adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or
• timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.

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, identifying opportunities
• for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
• 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, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that
• prevent future issues.

Continuous Learning:

• Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise
• to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the
• advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g.,
• conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and
• evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends,
• technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current
• with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing,
• promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive
• advancement and mentors others to do the same.

Continuous Improvement:

• Develops innovative solutions and drives the
• implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
• processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates
• effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to
• enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs
• and develops 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, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with
• organizational talent strategy.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

• Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

• Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

• US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

• Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lin