Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the NXI team within OCI's Strategic Customer Engineering. You will guide a right-sized organization of managers and engineers, delivering production-grade solutions for AI infrastructure as customers adopt new accelerator platforms and regions.

You will drive platform bring-up, workload onboarding, and production readiness, coordinating with Compute, Networking, Storage, and Product teams to meet customer deployment needs and milestones.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience, or distributed systems, including cloud/AI infrastructure.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership, managing managers and multiple teams.
• Experience working with demanding customers to deploy and operate complex infrastructure at scale.
• Technical depth in accelerated computing, Linux, high-performance networking, and distributed systems.
• Proven success delivering technical projects across organizational boundaries.
• Strong executive communication and judgment to explain risks and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an organization of engineering managers and senior customer and infrastructure engineers.
• Own onboarding from requirements discovery to platform bring-up and production readiness.
• Lead validation of new accelerator platforms; define benchmarking and regression testing.
• Agree measurable acceptance criteria with customers for workload throughput and reliability.
• Collaborate with Compute, Networking, Storage, Product, Operations teams to align product readiness with customer plans.
• Serve as senior technical escalation lead for the customer portfolio and communicate progress to executives.
• Translate customer findings into engineering requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Develop automation, diagnostics, and onboarding playbooks to accelerate production across generations.

Skills

People management

Infrastructure engineering

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

AI infrastructure

Customer engagement

Executive communication

Technical judgment

Linux

High-performance computing

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE

Tools

NVIDIA CUDA

AMD ROCm

Job description

Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

• United States
• Job Identification 347552
• Job Category Product and Research
• Posting Date 10/14/2026, 03:49 AM
• Role People Manager
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the NXI team within the Strategic Customer Engineering organization. The NXI team helps customers with new products, features, and regions. You will build and lead a team responsible for the technical success of some of OCI's largest AI infrastructure customers as they adopt new accelerator platforms, regions, and engineering capabilities.

Your team will guide customers from early platform evaluation through cluster validation, workload onboarding, production readiness, and expansion. The scope includes platforms such as GB200, GB300, MI355, MI450, Vera Rubin, and subsequent generations as introduced in OCI, together with new capabilities across compute, networking, storage, and cluster management.

You will work directly with customer engineering leaders and senior OCI stakeholders to turn customer requirements into tested solutions, resolve issues across the infrastructure stack, and ensure new products support customers' training and inference workloads at scale.

Responsibilities

Build and lead an organization of engineering managers and senior customer and infrastructure engineers. Recruit technical talent, develop leaders, and establish clear accountability for customer outcomes.

Own technical onboarding from requirements discovery and architecture review through platform bring-up, workload migration, acceptance testing, production readiness, and expansion.

Lead customer validation of new accelerator platforms and OCI features. Establish repeatable qualification, benchmarking, and regression testing that reflect real customer workloads.

Agree measurable acceptance criteria with customers, including workload throughput, scaling efficiency, job completion, reliability, and time to first successful production workload.

Partner with OCI Compute, Networking, Storage, Product, Capacity, Operations, and Support teams, and technology suppliers, to resolve dependencies and align product readiness with customer deployment plans.

Serve as the senior technical escalation leader for the customer portfolio. Communicate impact, evidence, mitigation plans, and recovery milestones to customer and OCI executives.

Translate customer findings into engineering requirements and roadmap priorities. Help product teams address systemic gaps before they affect additional customers.

Build automation, diagnostics, reference architectures, and onboarding playbooks that reduce manual effort and shorten time to production across platform generations.

Qualifications

Required experience

12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or distributed systems, including delivery of cloud, AI, or high-performance computing infrastructure.

5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering managers and leading multiple technical teams.

A record of working directly with demanding customers to deploy, validate, and operate complex infrastructure at scale.

Technical depth in accelerated computing, Linux, high-performance networking, and distributed systems, with the ability to evaluate architecture, performance, and reliability tradeoffs.

Demonstrated success leading technical delivery across organizational boundaries, from early technology introduction through reliable production use.

Strong executive communication and technical judgment, including the ability to explain risks and tradeoffs to customer leaders and make decisions under uncertainty.

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred experience

Experience introducing new GPU or accelerator generations into production clusters, including familiarity with NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm ecosystems.

Knowledge of RDMA networking, accelerator interconnects, distributed training collectives, and storage performance for large AI workloads.

Experience partnering with AI model developers, large enterprise AI customers, hardware suppliers, or accelerator vendors.

Experience building software and automation for cluster qualification, health checks, diagnostics, or workload failure analysis.

Measures of success

Success will be measured by customers reaching production on new platforms and features with agreed performance and reliability; shorter onboarding cycles; faster resolution of technical blockers; fewer recurring defects; and engineering improvements that benefit the broader OCI customer base.

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: $169,800 to $355,400 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 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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• 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: 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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 Oracle's 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.

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