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Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Principal Electrical Engineer

Full-Time
$146.3k - $306.4k/yr+ Bonus + Equity
Expert
United States
In Person
Hardware EngineeringBoard & Electronics Design

About the job

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.

About the company

Oracle builds databases, business applications, and cloud infrastructure for companies and public-sector organizations. Oracle Database stores and processes business data, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides computing, storage, and networking for applications and AI workloads. Fusion Cloud Applications support finance, human resources, supply chains, and customer service, helping businesses manage everyday operations and reporting. Customers pay for cloud subscriptions and usage, software licenses, support, hardware, and consulting, with deployment options in Oracle's cloud or their own data centers. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

1977

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What believers are saying

  • Cloud infrastructure sales grew: Oracle reported $7.4 billion quarterly revenue, up 121% yearly, in September 2026.
  • Employees build transferable skills: Oracle offers free product certifications and access to Coursera, O'Reilly, and LinkedIn Learning.
  • Existing licenses create repeat business: Oracle sells annual technical support covering software updates, fixes, and assistance.

What critics are saying

  • Expansion consumes cash: Oracle reported negative $5 billion free cash flow for its August 2026 quarter despite profitable operations.
  • Job security faces active restructuring: Oracle's September 2026 filing added $700 million to a plan centered on employee severance.
  • Future datacenters lock in costs: Oracle's September 2026 filing lists $288 billion of future lease commitments, typically lasting 15-19 years.

What makes Oracle unique

  • Its database runs inside rival clouds: Oracle delivers native database services in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud datacenters.
  • Global expansion keeps one rate card: Oracle charges the same OCI service prices across regions, including government clouds.
  • Hardware participates in database work: Oracle's Exadata storage servers process data-intensive queries alongside specialized database servers and networking.

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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

2%

2 year growth

3%
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