Lead Principal Electrical Engineer- Data Center

Job-ID: 347548Category: Product and ResearchLocation: Nashville, TN, United States; United StatesSchedule: Full timePosted: 2026-10-13Closes: 2027-04-11Role: Individual ContributorJob Type: Regular EmployeeDoes this position require a security clearance?: NoYears: 6 to 10+ yearsApplicants: Less than 10 applicantsApplicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: EnglishImplements 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.QualificationsDisclaimer: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 onlyUS: 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 opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. 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 holidays10. 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 leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe 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.Responsibilities /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; } @font-face {font-family:Calibri; } @font-face {font-family:"Oracle Sans Light"; } /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:8.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter { margin:0in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;} span.FooterChar { } .MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;} .MsoPapDefault {margin-bottom:8.0pt; line-height:107%;} /* Page Definitions */ @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} Key Responsibilities 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. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.About the companyOnly Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing View email address on click.appcast.io or by calling View phone number on click.appcast.io in the United States.Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.