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Principal Electrical Engineer- Data Center Design and Innovation

United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Jun 2026

💰 $306,400/yr($146,300/yr – $306,400/yr)

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of gigawatt-scale cloud infrastructure to power AI, high-performance computing, and the world’s most demanding enterprise workloads. We are seeking innovative Mechanical Engineers to lead the development of next-generation data center designs focused on scale, availability, speed, and operational efficiency.

In this role, you will drive the mechanical architecture and product strategy behind OCI’s rapidly expanding global data center footprint. You will be at the forefront of evaluating and deploying advanced cooling technologies, airflow strategies, and mechanical systems capable of supporting hyperscale and GW-scale infrastructure growth.

You will collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and external partner teams to define the future of OCI mechanical infrastructure. This is a highly visible technical leadership role with direct influence on design standards, product roadmaps, and long-term infrastructure strategy.

Budgets and Efficiency:
-Leads the implementation of energy efficient solutions to optimize design of heat rejection systems and minimize losses.
-Spearheads the evaluation of, provides consultation on the efficiency of, and evaluates self-build programs.
-Distills and articulates architectural tradeoffs in terms of key metrics (e.g., feasibility, performance, cost, risk, and schedule) to drive upgrades to efficiency.
-Leverages deep, cross-functional knowledge to lead team activity.

Infrastructure Design and Development-Capacity Delivery:
-Drives the next generation of mechanical designs for OCIs GW scale delivery

Drives the delivery of infrastructure capacity for Oracle Cloud.
-Architects solutions to enable capacity across cloud offerings.

Infrastructure Design and Development-Infrastructure Development:
-Drives the design of data center critical infrastructure for Oracle Cloud.
-Empowers collaboration with internal stakeholders to deliver project design criteria and develop Basis of Design.
-Strengthens partnership with hardware development teams to drive the design direction/definition of roadmap, and drive concepts onto roadmap and into OCI fleet.
-Influences collaboration with the hardware development, data center design, and construction teams to ensure seamless transition from architecture to implementation.
-Manages the development and management of advanced cooling solutions.

Infrastructure Design and Development-Infrastructure Support:
-Ensures response to data center build and construction related emergencies as needed.
-Oversees design and debug investigations and support failure analysis and resolution activities.

Innovation:
-Leads the research of new designs, materials, and construction methods for data center equipment and related components, including site and building.
-Spearheads the identification of and monitors the need for new tools to improve the quality of data and analytics.
-Architects and evaluates new power and advanced cooling technologies that enable the delivery of artificial intelligence (AI) products and other technologies driving up density and performance in data centers.
-Drives the development of optimal components and solutions for future OCI fleet requirements by partners (e.g., technology providers and design partners).

Innovation-Patent Generation:
-Spearheads the identification of opportunities to generate intellectual property to help strengthen OCI's position as a leader in Cloud Computing.

Quality Assurance-Documentation:
-Drives the development of OCI data center facilities requirements documentation.

Quality Assurance:
-Oversees product evaluation.
-Ensures that quality benchmarks are upheld for new sites, regions, and/or deployments.

Quality Assurance-Standard Development/Maintenance:<