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Lead Principal Electrical Engineer- Data Center

Oracle


Job Location:

Nashville, IN - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 146300 - 306400
Posted: 15 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 12 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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

KeyResponsibilities
Conceptual Design of Electrical Systems:
-Implements the strategic vision for advancedelectrical system architectures addressing complex design challenges toenhance both technical performance and business objectives.
-Establishes technical roadmaps for innovationsensuring alignment with long-term product strategies and industry advancements.
-Guides the adoption of emerging technologiesshaping methodologies that optimize server performance reliability andscalability.
-Owns high-level design decisions balancingtrade-offs between performance security reliability power efficiencythermal management and manufacturability while ensuring future-proofedsolutions.
Detailed Design and Implementation:
-Defines component selection strategies andsystem-wide optimization frameworks ensuring alignment with evolving technicalstandards manufacturing feasibility and performance requirements.
-Leads high-impact initiatives from concept toproduction leveraging advanced modeling simulation and design analysis topush the boundaries of electrical systems.
-Provides expert consultation in system-widedesign reviews setting guidelines for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) integrationand board layout to ensure optimized performance manufacturability andcost-effectiveness.
-Addresses escalations for highly complexcomponent issues driving strategic decisions on quality compliance andintegration to mitigate risks and ensure seamless deployment.
-Serves as a thought leader on the integration ofelectrical subsystems establishing best practices and fostering innovationacross firmware software and diagnostics teams.
Testing Validation and Debugging:
-Implements enterprise-level validationstrategies ensuring electrical system performance reliability and efficiencymeet industry standards.
-Assists in implementing automation-drivenvalidation platforms enhancing scalability adaptability and diagnosticsduring product lifecycles.
-Leads and mentors teams in executing test plansanalyzing prototypes and resolving hardware challenges that impact productionand competitiveness.
-Provides risk assessment and failure analysisensuring electrical systems meet stringent technical and regulatory standards.
-Leads complex sustaining engineering activitiesresolving customer escalations performing root cause analysis qualifyingalternate components and addressing end-of-life issues.
Documentation and Process Development:
-Drives the development of enterprise-widetechnical documentation frameworks ensuring precision consistency andstrategic alignment with business objectives.
-Implements documentation best practices tostreamline product iterations accelerate development cycles and enhancecross-functional collaboration.
-Leads formal design reviews acting as theprimary technical authority on electrical design trade-offs ensuring optimaldecision-making and long-term scalability.
Continuous Learning and Innovation:
-Contributes to thought leadership initiativesdriving research and development efforts that position Oracle as a leader inelectrical system innovation.
-Participates in expert engineering communitiesfostering a culture of technical excellence through mentorshipcross-functional knowledge sharing and continuous improvement programs.
-Drives high-impact innovation initiativesleveraging deep domain expertise to influence long-term technology roadmaps andcompetitive differentiation.

Additional Responsibilities (as needed)
Electromagnetic Compatibility:
-Shapes the compliance strategy for electricalhardware systems ensuring alignment with complex global safetyelectromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and environmental regulations to enableproduct scalability and sustained market access.
-Advises executive and cross-functional leadershipon compliance risks and opportunities drives the early integration ofregulatory requirements into hardware architecture and establishes frameworksfor rigorous scalable pre-compliance testing and certification readiness.
-Leads organizational readiness for regulatorychange by interpreting emerging global standards influencing internal designand documentation practices and developing enterprise-wide best practices thatensure compliance is embedded as a core product development capability.
-Develops internal tools to manage compliancedocumentation.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages and provides direction on timelinesdeliverables and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects orinitiatives that impact the line of business ensuring timely completion andadherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources ortimelines based on changing business priorities ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and externalstakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnershipswith key business leaders stakeholders and/or customers identifying opportunitiesfor expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking listening to andincorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized advanced problem-solvingefforts serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others toleverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novelissues identify root causes and drives the implementation of solutions thatprevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertiseto serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to theadvancement of the field or industry through thought leadership ( presentations white papers research contributions). Maintains andevolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trendstechnologies and industry standards ensuring the organization remains currentwith best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharingpromoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to driveadvancement and mentors others to do the same.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops innovative solutions and drives theimplementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness ofprocesses protocols and workflows across the organization. Evaluateseffectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement toenhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designsand develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regardingtalent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expertknowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidateinterviews candidate assessment and hiring decisions ensuring alignment withorganizational 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: $146300 to $306400 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 Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracles onboarding process and consistent with applicable law US-based employees are required to complete identity verification which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.



Required Experience:

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