Principal Mechanical Engineer - Thermal & Enclosures

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking an experienced mechanical design engineer to develop electronic parts, enclosures and packaging for data center hardware. You will use CAD tools to create 3D models, detailed designs and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure reliability, performance and manufacturability.

You will review stress and reliability analyses, identify failure points, guide prototype‑to‑production transitions, and support testing and material improvements while aligning with project

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Collaborates with electrical engineers, component engineers, operations teams, and other internal stakeholders to contribute to design optimizations for 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.
• 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.
• Conducts detailed thermal analysis and design using 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 and correlation with simulation results.
• 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 constraints in product development.
• Plans and executes project milestones, coordinating resources and design reviews to meet objectives.

Tools

ProE

SolidWorks

Job description

Oracle US is seeking an experienced mechanical design engineer to develop electronic parts, enclosures and packaging for data center hardware. You will use CAD tools to create 3D models, detailed designs and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure reliability, performance and manufacturability.

You will review stress and reliability analyses, identify failure points, guide prototype‑to‑production transitions, and support testing and material improvements while aligning with project