Principal Network Hardware Engineer

Description
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.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Platform Roadmap and Requirements:

• 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.

Hardware/Optical Qualification and Interoperability:

• 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.

Supplier/Vendor Management and Cost/Power Optimization:

• 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.

Compliance, Security, and Quality (incl. labs, test, and release controls):

• 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.

New Product Introduction (NPI), Deployment Readiness, and Sustaining:

• 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.

Data, Metrics, and Continuous Improvement:

• 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.

 

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:

• 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.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• 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.

Problem Solving:

• 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.

Continuous Learning:

• 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.

Continuous Improvement:

• 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.

Performance and Development:

• Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

 

Qualifications
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 only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 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 - IC4