Senior Principal Design Quality & Reliability Engineer

Oracle

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$146,300–$306,400 / yr
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TL;DR · Senior Principal Design Quality & Reliability Engineer

The Sr. Principal Design Quality & Reliability Engineer – OCI Data Center Infrastructure serves as a technical expert within the OCI Data Center Infrastructure team. This individual contributor role involves defining and championing design quality and reliability strategies for critical infrastructure. Key responsibilities include leading cross-functional design reviews to ensure resiliency and maintainability, developing reliability methodologies like FMEA, fault tree analysis, and accelerated life testing, and defining qualification criteria for systems. The role requires analyzing field performance data, including AFR, MTBF, and warranty trends, to recommend component changes. Candidates must possess expertise in hyperscale or cloud data center infrastructure, reliability growth methodologies, and supporting GW-scale infrastructure deployments. The position focuses on solving systemic reliability problems and improving manufacturing readiness for large-scale cloud data center products.

What you'll do

  • Define and champion the design quality and reliability strategy for critical infrastructure.
  • Lead cross-functional design reviews focused on failure prevention, resiliency, and lifecycle performance.
  • Apply reliability methodologies including FMEA, fault tree analysis, and accelerated life testing.
  • Define qualification and acceptance criteria for critical infrastructure products and systems.
  • Analyze field performance data, AFR, MTBF, and warranty trends to identify systemic improvements.
  • Recommend design, component, and supplier changes based on data-driven analysis.
  • Develop KPI dashboards and benchmark performance against industry best practices.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience.
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English.
  • Experience in hyperscale or cloud data center infrastructure (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AFR, IDR, MTBF, and reliability growth methodologies (preferred).
  • Experience supporting GW-scale infrastructure deployments (preferred).
  • Advanced degree in Engineering or a related discipline (preferred).
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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