Principal Mechanical Engineer

Oracle; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle seeks a mechanical design engineer to independently design and develop mechanical systems, enclosures, and packaging for reliable, high-performance hardware. You will use CAD tools to create 3D models, refine designs with cross-functional teams, and support prototype-to-production transitions.

Your work includes structural and reliability analysis, collaboration with manufacturing, and leadership in thermal management and testing to ensure product quality and manufacturability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing mechanical systems, enclosures, and packaging.
• Ability to review material strength and reliability and identify failure points.
• Experience coordinating with Operations and suppliers for prototype-to-production transitions.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop electronic parts, components, board layout and board planning, mechanical systems, equipment, and packaging, ensuring reliability, performance, and manufacturability.
• Contributes to setting thermal cooling strategies and designs mechanical architecture for server generations from feasibility to production.
• Uses CAD tools to develop 3D models and detailed mechanical designs with cross-functional collaboration.
• Addresses stress, strain, and FEA results to ensure mechanical strength and reliability.
• Ensures manufacturability within cost and quality constraints with Operations and External Manufacturers.
• Oversees prototype builds, testing, and validation to meet design goals.
• Collaborates with electrical engineers and suppliers to optimize performance and cost.
• Manages engineering project design reviews and documentation.
• Leads thermal management analysis with CFD tools and validates results.

Skills

CAD tools

3D modeling

Thermal analysis

FEA

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Testing

CFD tools

Tools

ProE

SolidWorks

FloTHERM

Icepak

Job description

Job Description

Independently designs and develops mechanical systems including components, enclosures, and packaging, ensuring reliability, performance, and manufacturability. Utilizes advanced computer aided design (CAD) tools to develop 3D models and detailed designs in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Reviews and evaluates mechanical strength and reliability of materials and components, identifies failure points, and works closely with operations and suppliers to support prototype-to-production transitions. Conducts testing and reliability assessments, resolves defects, and integrates new materials to improve hardware products. Manages mechanical design aspects of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with project timelines, quality standards, and design goals.

Responsibilities

KeyResponsibilities

Design and Development:

• Independently designs and develops electronic

parts, components, board layout and board planning, mechanical systems,

equipment, and packaging, ensuring reliability, performance, and

manufacturability.

• Contributes to setting thermal cooling strategies

and designs mechanical architecture for server generations, from feasibility

studies to production.

• Utilizes advanced computer assisted design (CAD)

tools (e.g., ProE, SolidWorks) to develop 3D models and detailed mechanical

designs, collaborating with cross-functional teams to refine solutions.

• Contributes to the mechanical design of

electronics enclosures or embedded systems, ensuring alignment with hardware

systems and design requirements.

Structural and Reliability Analysis:

• Reviews the results of stress analysis, strain

analysis, and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to evaluate the mechanical strength

and reliability of materials and components, addressing challenges

independently.

• Identifies and addresses potential points of

failure, conducting root cause and corrective action analysis to refine designs

and improve reliability.

Manufacturing and Production Support:

• Ensures that designs are manufacturable within

cost and quality constraints, working closely with Operations and External

Manufacturers to support the transition from prototype to production.

• Guides the design development process, ensuring

alignment with project timelines and collaborating across teams to optimize

manufacturing processes.

Product Testing and Quality Assurance:

• Conducts reliability assessments of materials and

designs, ensuring products meet company standards.

• Oversees prototype build and testing processes,

ensuring designs meet functional and performance goals while identifying areas

for improvement.

• Analyzes test data to detect bugs, defects, and

failure trends.

Research and Innovation:

• Researches and implements next-generation

technologies to optimize data center and cloud application products.

• Evaluates and integrates new materials,

processes, and mechanical design techniques, contributing to continuous

innovation and product improvement.

Collaboration with Cross-functional Teams:

• Collaborates with electrical engineers, component

engineers, operations teams, and other internal stakeholders to contribute to

design optimizations that enhance product performance, reliability, and

manufacturability.

• Engages with suppliers to develop high-quality

components and assemblies, ensuring they meet performance and cost goals.

• Works with manufacturing to transition designs to

production.

Project Management:

• Manages the mechanical design aspects of

engineering projects in coordination with program schedule requirements.

• Begins to coordinate resources, timelines, and

design reviews for their portion of the project to ensure successful delivery.

• Maintains detailed documentation of design

processes and decisions, providing clear communication to stakeholders and

ensuring alignment with project objectives and schedule.

Additional Responsibilities (as needed)

Thermal Management:

• Conducts detailed thermal analysis and design

using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools like FloTHERM or Icepak,

ensuring optimal thermal management for electronic devices.

• Develops and executes airflow measurements,

environmental testing, and thermal validation tests for products, ensuring

compliance with internal and external standards (e.g., ASHRAE Data Center

Standards) and correlation with simulation results.

Environmental Test Engineering:

• Leads efforts to ensure mechanical product

designs meet global regulatory and industry standards by independently managing

standard activities throughout the development lifecycle.

• Oversees environmental testing, collaborating

with internal teams or third-party labs to ensure designs fully comply with

required standards.

• Leads communication with design engineers and

program managers to align test results and issues, providing guidance on how to

address constraints in product development.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks,

monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence

to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently

delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing

technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or

timelines.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Collaborates across the organization to align on

expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business

leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their

needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse

perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues

by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in

accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or

critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.

Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

• Pursues learning opportunities to expand

knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest

industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing

feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team

members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across

teams.

Continuous Improvement:

• Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or

collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the

efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across

teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from

others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued

improvement.

Performance and Development:

• Contributes to the talent development pipeline by

participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing

hiring recommendations.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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.

Career Level – IC4

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