Full-Time

Principal Power Systems Engineer

Oracle

Oracle

10,001+ employees

Enterprise software and cloud computing provider

Compensation Overview

$146.3k - $306.4k/yr

+ Bonus + Equity

United States

In Person

Category
Electrical Engineering

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Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Shapes the compliance strategy for electrical hardware systems, ensuring alignment with complex global safety, electromagnetic compatibility 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Drives high-impact innovation initiatives, leveraging deep domain expertise to influence long-term technology roadmaps and competitive differentiation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Oracle provides enterprise software and cloud services, including database management, middleware, applications, and developer tools. Its core product is the Oracle Database, a relational database that stores and retrieves data using SQL; customers can run it on premises or in the Oracle Cloud, and they can use accompanying tools for data analytics, security, and integration. Oracle also offers a broad suite of applications (like ERP, HR, and health IT) and a cloud platform to build, deploy, and manage software. The company differentiates itself through a long history and large, integrated portfolio that connects database technology with applications, middleware, hardware, and cloud services, plus a track record of major acquisitions that broaden its scope. Its goal is to help organizations store, manage, and analyze data at scale, automate business processes, and run software in a unified, multi-environment cloud and on-premises setup.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

1977

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Oracle's fiscal 2026 revenue rose 21% to $19.2 billion, driven by OCI growth.
  • Minor Hotels and CACI expanded Oracle deployments on August 3-4, 2026.
  • Oracle plans AMD MI450 superclusters starting Q3 2026, strengthening its AI infrastructure moat.

What critics are saying

  • Oracle cut 21,000 jobs by May 2026 while paying $1.8 billion severance.
  • Oracle burned $23.7 billion free cash flow in FY2026 and targets $70 billion capex.
  • Oracle's OpenAI-heavy backlog concentrates existential counterparty risk inside a single customer relationship.

What makes Oracle unique

  • Oracle's July 2026 OCI backlog reached $638 billion, dwarfing annual revenue.
  • Oracle integrates OCI, Fusion, and OpenAI Marketplace billing across one enterprise stack.
  • Oracle's August 11, 2026 Quantinuum deal adds quantum access inside OCI AI data centers.

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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

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
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Aug 11th, 2026
Quantinuum partners with Oracle to bring Helios quantum computer to OCI for hybrid AI workloads

Quantinuum and Oracle have announced a multi-year partnership to integrate Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. OCI customers will gain direct access to Helios, which Quantinuum describes as the most accurate commercial quantum computer, alongside OCI's high-performance computing and GPU infrastructure. The 98-physical-qubit trapped-ion system achieves an average two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.921%. Helios uses significantly less energy than supercomputers, with an estimated power draw of less than 1% compared to leading supercomputers. The partnership aims to create a hybrid quantum-AI computing environment for enterprise workloads in materials discovery, drug development, logistics, energy, and financial modelling. Oracle plans to preview its OCI quantum service in the coming months, enabling developers to move from simulation to execution on quantum hardware. Quantinuum employs approximately 800 people globally, with over 70% of its technology team holding PhDs or master's degrees.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 10th, 2026
Oracle's free cash flow turns negative as capex hits 83% of revenue to fund AI data centre buildout

Oracle's transformation from a traditional software company into an AI infrastructure business has dramatically shifted its financial profile. The company now spends over 80% of revenue on capital expenditures, compared to a historical average of 4.3%, with free cash flow swinging from 32% of revenue to negative 35%. The spending funds AI data centre construction in locations including Abilene, Texas and Port Washington, Wisconsin. Oracle delivered more than 1.2 gigawatts to customers in fiscal 2026 and expects around $70 billion in net capital expenditure for fiscal 2027. The company plans to raise roughly $40 billion through debt and equity in fiscal 2027 to fund this expansion. Remaining performance obligations reached $638 billion against $67 billion in annual revenue, indicating strong contracted demand. Oracle's stock has fallen approximately 40% over the past year as investors reassess the company's shift from software to infrastructure.

Business Insider
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Michael Burry shorts Oracle and Nebius, calling AI companies 'fat fish' ripe for collapse

Michael Burry has disclosed short positions in Oracle and Nebius, two companies heavily invested in AI infrastructure. The investor famous for predicting the mid-2000s housing bubble announced the trades on Substack, shorting Oracle at approximately $145 and Nebius at around $212 per share. Burry criticised AI companies for accumulating "off-balance sheet liabilities" and suggested they have become bloated targets. Oracle shares have plummeted nearly 60% from their September peak of $350 amid debt concerns. Nebius stock fell 13% to $190 on Thursday, though it has still more than doubled this year. Burry previously profited from bearish Oracle puts in August. He warned that Nebius faces significant execution risk due to high costs and challenging customer commitments in the data centre business.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 5th, 2026
Oracle's AI gamble: $638B backlog built on $156B debt and risky OpenAI dependence

Oracle faces significant financial risks despite impressive cloud growth, with total debt reaching $156 billion and an additional $261 billion in unreported data-centre lease commitments. The company's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue rose 46% to $9.9 billion in its fourth quarter, and it holds $638 billion in contracted future revenue. However, Oracle reported negative free cash flow of $24.5 billion in fiscal 2026. More concerning, approximately half of its revenue backlog depends on OpenAI, which is burning through cash at unprecedented rates. The S&P 500 fell over 7% through April before recovering nearly 20%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped more than 10% before rising nearly 25% from that low. Given that roughly 40% of the S&P 500's value concentrates in just 10 stocks—nearly all major tech companies—any AI industry issues could trigger broader market problems.

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Michael Burry has exited his Microsoft position and closed his short on Oracle, according to a trading update on his Substack page. The "Big Short" investor first disclosed his Microsoft stake in April and recently unwound it, citing "lucky timing" whilst noting his enthusiasm for the company's earnings didn't match the market's response. Burry also closed his Oracle short position, consisting of January 2027 put options, taking "substantial" profit. He left open the possibility of re-entering Oracle puts if volatility decreases. The investor maintained his direct short position in Palantir despite the company's shares surging nearly 30% following blowout second-quarter results. Palantir's revenue nearly doubled to $1.94 billion, beating expectations.