Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, dedicated to innovation and community support. The Hardware Platform Engineer will lead the integration and development of rack-level hardware platforms for data centers, ensuring designs are practical and ready for global deployment.
Responsibilities
- Lead integration of rack-level hardware platforms for data center deployment
- Ensure designs meet requirements for mechanical integrity, thermal performance, serviceability, and scale
- Drive system-level design across compute, cooling, and infrastructure interfaces
- Partner with internal and external teams to validate designs
- Define platform interfaces with infrastructure, including: Liquid cooling (CDUs, fluid routing, connections), Installation, transport, and handling, Facility interfaces (space, power, cooling, serviceability)
- Ensure deployment readiness and resolve gaps impacting scale
- Define telemetry requirements (power, temperature, flow, pressure, system health)
- Ensure instrumentation is enabled at deployment
- Partner with software/data teams to support monitoring and analysis
- Identify and close gaps in telemetry coverage and data quality
- Drive standardization across rack platforms
- Establish best practices for connections, transport, leak detection, and instrumentation
- Maintain documentation as a source of truth
- Collaborate across OHD, engineering, operations, supply chain, and software teams
- Align with external partners (OEMs, silicon vendors)
- Drive technical decisions and bring structure to complex efforts
- Track and resolve platform issues, especially during early deployment
- Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Use field data and telemetry insights to improve designs and processes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline
- 6+ years in hardware engineering, mechanical systems, or data center infrastructure
- Experience with complex, rack- or system-level hardware
- Strong foundation in mechanical, thermal, and/or fluid systems
- Experience with hardware instrumentation/telemetry is a plus
- Proven ability to drive outcomes across teams
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Data center infrastructure and rack-level design experience
- Familiarity with liquid cooling (e.g., direct-to-chip, CDU systems)
- Experience with platform standardization or system integration at scale
- Experience working with hardware vendors or OEMs
- Exposure to high-density compute platforms (e.g., GPUs)
- Experience supporting deployment or commissioning
- Familiarity with telemetry or performance monitoring systems
Benefits
- Competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
- Volunteer programs.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking 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
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