Lead Principal Electrical Engineer- Data Center

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a senior electrical systems architect in Nashville to drive the conceptual and detailed design of electrical architectures for high-performance servers. You will own system-wide trade-offs, guide CAD and layout integration, and mentor teams across firmware, software, and diagnostics to ensure scalable, reliable solutions.

You will lead validation and certification readiness, develop enterprise documentation standards, and shape long-term roadmaps while collaborating

Responsibilities

• Implements the strategic vision for advanced electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to enhance 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shapes the compliance strategy for electrical hardware systems, ensuring alignment with complex global safety, 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 ensure compliance is embedded as a core product development capability.
• Develops internal tools to manage compliance documentation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Impart leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Job description

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, 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 ensure 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. Impart leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.