Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company that integrates data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to drive innovation. The Principal Network Hardware Engineer will own qualification plans and sustaining strategies for product lines, designing test strategies, optimizing cost/power, and ensuring multi-vendor interoperability.
Responsibilities
- Convert capacity and reliability objectives into component and system-level specs and acceptance thresholds
- Influence platform SKU strategy (line cards, optics mix, timing modules) based on field learnings and market trends
- Align requirements across Teams and related Groups to prevent divergence
- Author comprehensive qualification strategies covering functional, environmental, and longevity tests
- Lead multi-vendor interoperability events; codify pass/fail and waiver criteria
- Validate energy efficiency and thermal behavior; recommend design guardrails
- Partner with suppliers to tune firmware/PLD/EEPROM settings for optimal power/performance
- Lead cost/power down-selections; maintain approved parts list and alternates
- Ensure vendor compliance to specifications, security, and traceability requirements
- Ensure EMI/EMC pre-compliance, safety, and labeling before release
- Implement change control gates for hardware/firmware; maintain audit-ready evidence
- Coordinate security assessments on supply chain risk and device-level controls
- Drive NPI from EVT/DVT/PVT through pilot; define burn-in and soak tests
- Create field deployment guides and rollback/contingency plans
- Lead cross-functional RCAs for field issues; prevent recurrence with supplier and internal changes
- Establish qualification KPIs (cycle time, defect escape rate, MTBF deltas)
- Automate test data ingestion and reporting; establish acceptance dashboards
- Standardize test fixtures, scripts, and golden images to improve repeatability
- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines
- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected
- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies
- Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams
- Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement
- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations
Skills
- 3 to 5+ years of experience in network hardware engineering
- Ability to read, write, and speak English
- Experience in designing test strategies and optimizing cost/power
- Experience in driving multi-vendor interoperability
- Ability to author comprehensive qualification strategies covering functional, environmental, and longevity tests
- Experience leading multi-vendor interoperability events
- Ability to validate energy efficiency and thermal behavior
- Experience partnering with suppliers to tune firmware/PLD/EEPROM settings
- Experience leading cost/power down-selections
- Ability to ensure vendor compliance to specifications, security, and traceability requirements
- Experience ensuring EMI/EMC pre-compliance, safety, and labeling before release
- Ability to implement change control gates for hardware/firmware
- Experience coordinating security assessments on supply chain risk and device-level controls
- Experience driving New Product Introduction (NPI) from EVT/DVT/PVT through pilot
- Ability to create field deployment guides and rollback/contingency plans
- Experience leading cross-functional RCAs for field issues
- Ability to establish qualification KPIs (cycle time, defect escape rate, MTBF deltas)
- Experience automating test data ingestion and reporting
- Ability to standardize test fixtures, scripts, and golden images
- Experience managing and coordinating moderately complex tasks
- Ability to collaborate across the organization to align on expectations
- Experience identifying and addressing moderately complex issues
- Ability to pursue learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills
- Experience developing ideas and recommending updates for process improvements
- Ability to contribute to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews
Benefits
- Flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options
- Volunteer programs
- Competitive benefits
- 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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