Principal Electrical Engineer

Oracle; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced Electrical Systems Engineer to define and execute the architecture of advanced electrical systems. You will drive conceptual and detailed design, validation strategies, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure performance, reliability, and manufacturability.

You will lead the development of documentation, mentor teams, and contribute to enterprise-wide standards while aligning with product roadmaps and business goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in conceptual and detailed design of electrical systems.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong skills in modeling, simulation, and design analysis.
• Experience with CAD integration and board layout is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop conceptual designs for electrical systems aligning with product strategy.
• Define component selection strategies and system-wide optimization.
• Lead validation and testing platforms across lifecycles.
• Create and maintain enterprise-wide technical documentation.
• Mentor teams and drive continuous improvement in design processes.
• Address escalations and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Electrical system architecture

System optimization

Modeling & simulation

Cross-functional leadership

Design reviews

Tools

CAD tools

Finite element analysis

EMC testing

Job description

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

KeyResponsibilities

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.

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 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 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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