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Principal Electrical Engineer
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What they do
An Electrical Engineer designs, develops, and tests products and systems that use or produce electricity, including power generators, electric motors, radar and navigation systems, and communication systems. Works on larger electrical systems rather than small electronic products or devices.
$102,661 / year median in Pennsylvania
+5% projected growth
Job Description
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Principal Electrical Engineer
United States
Job Identification
341328
Job Category
Product and Research
Posting Date
07/27/2026, 04:24 PM
Role
Individual Contributor
Job Type
Regular Employee
Does this position require a security clearance?
No
Years
6 to 10+ years
Applicants
Less than 10 applicants
Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages
English
Job Description
Implements the strategic vision for advanced electrical system architectures, addressing complex design challenges to enhance both technical performance and business objectives. Defines component selection strategies and system-wide optimization frameworks, addressing escalations for highly complex component issues. Implements enterprise-level validation strategies, ensuring electrical system performance, reliability, and efficiency meet industry standards. Drives the development of enterprise-wide technical documentation frameworks, ensuring precision, consistency, and strategic alignment with business objectives. Contributes to thought leadership initiatives, driving research and development efforts that position Oracle as a leader in electrical system innovation.
Responsibilities Key Responsibilities
Conceptual Design of Electrical Systems:
- 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.
Detailed Design and Implementation:
- 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 (CAD) 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.
Testing, Validation, and Debugging:
- 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.
Documentation and Process Development:
- 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.
Continuous Learning and Innovation:
- 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.
Electromagnetic Compatibility:
- 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.
Planning & Execution:
- 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.
Collaboration & Partnership:
- Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.
Problem Solving:
- Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.
Continuous Learning:
- Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.
Continuous Improvement:
- Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
Performance and Development:
- Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations onlyUS:
Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8.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. 9. 11 paid holidays 10.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. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level- IC5 About Us Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care.