Sr Principal HW Power Engineer

Oracle

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Burlington, MA, USA • Santa Clara, CA, USA

$120,100 - $251,600

Hardware

Principal Software Engineer

Hybrid

5,000+ Employees

10+ years of experience

Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Sr Principal HW Power Engineer

Technical Lead Principal Power Engineer:

The power requirements of our next generation Oracle servers are very demanding with increasing focus on highly efficient solutions for our cloud and vertically integrated rack level solutions. As a Technical Lead Electrical Design Engineer focusing on Power design, you will be responsible for Power sub-system and board level architecture, power team leadership and detailed design. You will take ownership of the power design work across all product development phases out to the transition to volume production. You will need to stay abreast of the latest developments in the area of power delivery and rapidly adopt & translate these into reliable power delivery subsystems for our Oracle offerings. On occasion, you will advise on power systems from prior products delivered by the hardware development organization.

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities include:

Technical leadership of a small power engineering team
Participate in rack level, system and board level power architecture and design meetings
Work with power engineers on design schedules for prototype designs
Create and maintain presentations to management on project status
Work out best of class power designs based on performance, part availability and cost
Design and Test of high power multi phase Voltage Regulator Down designs (VRDs)
Design, test and tune analog and digital DC-DC converters
Setup and maintain automation platforms used to validate Power designs
Collaborate with internal firmware/software teams on implementing system level diagnostics
Work with various external vendors to assure power components meet required specifications
Bring up and test prototypes
Develop and implement test plans
Mentor Power Engineers
Perform and lead Lab debug of HW problems

Required Qualifications:

Experience with being a technical lead of a small team of power engineers
Experience with system-level power distribution and architecture from rack down to chip level
Experience with high power on-board modern multi-Phase VRD designs, DC-DC converters, Voltage regulators and Electronic Circuit Breakers
Strong knowledge of high-speed design methodologies for Power Integrity/Signal Integrity
Proficient in CAD design tools such as Cadence, Concept, Allegro
Experience with power requirements of high performance CPU processors, GPUs, DDR memory DIMMs, PCIe Cards, Flash modules, disk drives etc.
Experience with DC-DC control loop tuning for stability and transient performance
Excellent communication and leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with I2C/PMBUS/SVID communication bus
Experience with Analog and Digital PWM control architectures
Experience with Power simulation software like SPICE, Simplis, Cadence PowerSI
Experience with recent Intel/AMD chip sets
Experience with Digital or Analog Simulation

Last updated 5 months ago

Responsibilities For Sr Principal HW Power Engineer

Technical leadership of a small power engineering team
Participate in rack level, system and board level power architecture and design meetings
Work with power engineers on design schedules for prototype designs
Create and maintain presentations to management on project status
Work out best of class power designs based on performance, part availability and cost
Design and Test of high power multi phase Voltage Regulator Down designs (VRDs)
Design, test and tune analog and digital DC-DC converters
Setup and maintain automation platforms used to validate Power designs
Collaborate with internal firmware/software teams on implementing system level diagnostics
Work with various external vendors to assure power components meet required specifications
Bring up and test prototypes
Develop and implement test plans
Mentor Power Engineers
Perform and lead Lab debug of HW problems

Requirements For Sr Principal HW Power Engineer

Experience with being a technical lead of a small team of power engineers
Experience with system-level power distribution and architecture from rack down to chip level
Experience with high power on-board modern multi-Phase VRD designs, DC-DC converters, Voltage regulators and Electronic Circuit Breakers
Strong knowledge of high-speed design methodologies for Power Integrity/Signal Integrity
Proficient in CAD design tools such as Cadence, Concept, Allegro
Experience with power requirements of high performance CPU processors, GPUs, DDR memory DIMMs, PCIe Cards, Flash modules, disk drives etc.
Experience with DC-DC control loop tuning for stability and transient performance
Excellent communication and leadership skills