Principal Electrical Engineer - Server Hardware Validation

Socket.dev; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Hardware Engineering seeks a Principal Electrical Engineer - Server Hardware Validation to join our Burlington lab on-site. You will lead validation across boards, subsystems, and server platforms.

This hands-on role requires collaborating with firmware, software, OS, and manufacturing teams to diagnose issues, qualify components, and implement corrective actions throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Hands-on role for an experienced electrical or hardware engineer.
• Lead hardware validation and sustaining from NPI to production.
• Collaborate across firmware, software, OS, and field service teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop validation strategies and qualify components.
• Investigate hardware failures and drive root cause.
• Collaborate across engineering, suppliers, and manufacturing.

Job description

About the Role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Hardware Engineering develops and supports the physical infrastructure behind Oracle Cloud from enterprise compute and storage servers to the hardware platforms that power large-scale cloud, data center, and AI workloads.

We are seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer - Server Hardware Validation to join our OCI Hardware Engineering team On-Site in Burlington, Massachusetts. This is a hands-on technical role for an experienced electrical or hardware engineer who enjoys solving difficult problems at the board, subsystem, and server-platform level.

You will lead complex hardware validation and sustaining engineering efforts throughout the product lifecycle, from New Product Introduction (NPI) through production. You will develop validation strategies, qualify components and alternate sources, investigate hardware failures, and work across engineering, suppliers, and manufacturing to drive issues to root cause and resolution.

This is a highly cross-functional role requiring deep technical collaboration with firmware, software, operating system, and field service engineering teams to perform rigorous root-cause analysis and rapidly develop, implement, and validate effective corrective actions.

This role works closely with our hardware lab in Burlington and provides an opportunity to have direct technical impact on the reliability, quality, and manufacturing continuity of Oracle's server infrastructure.

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