Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Network Hardware Engineer. The role involves owning qualification plans and sustaining strategies for product lines, designing test strategies, and ensuring compliance with capacity and reliability goals.
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
- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives
- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices
- 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
- 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
- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations
Skills
- Owns qualification plans and sustaining strategies for one or more product lines across a Group
- Designs test strategies, optimizes cost/power, and drives multi-vendor interoperability to meet capacity, reliability, and compliance goals
- 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
- 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
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