Principal Mechanical Engineer

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Clara is seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer to design and develop mechanical systems, enclosures, and packaging for server hardware, ensuring reliability, performance, and manufacturability.

You will use CAD tools like ProE and SolidWorks to create 3D models, conduct thermal analyses, collaborate with electrical, systems, and manufacturing teams, and help transition prototypes to production while meeting schedules and quality targets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering required or equivalent.
• Experience designing mechanical systems for hardware products with emphasis on reliability and manufacturability.
• Proficiency with CAD tools and ability to interpret electrical and systems requirements.

Responsibilities

• Independently design and develop mechanical systems, enclosures, and packaging for server hardware.
• Contribute to thermal cooling strategies and mechanical architecture for server generations.
• Use CAD tools (ProE, SolidWorks) to create 3D models and detailed designs.
• Lead mechanical design of electronics enclosures or embedded systems in alignment with hardware requirements.
• Review stress/FEA results to ensure mechanical strength and reliability.

Skills

CAD design

Thermal management

FEM/FEA analysis

Supplier collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

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

Key Responsibilities

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 standards 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.

Qualifications

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

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. 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.

Benefits

• 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.

Career Level - IC4

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