Sr. Principal Controls Engineer- Data Center Design and Innovation
Oracle · United States ·
- Seniority
- Principal
- Category
- Design
- Visa sponsorship
- Yes
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 146,300 – 306,400 / year
Oracle · United States ·
This is a highly influential technical leadership role focused on defining the future of Building Management Systems (BMS) and Electrical/Mechanical Plant Management Systems (EMPS) for OCI's hyperscale and GW-scale data center platforms. You will provide deep technical expertise in controls architecture, software integration, automation, operational intelligence, and platform standardization to enable world-class reliability, scalability, efficiency, and speed of deployment.
You will partner closely with mechanical, electrical, network, software, operations, commissioning, manufacturing, and supply chain engineering teams to develop and scale a unified controls ecosystem supporting OCI's next-generation infrastructure.
This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, influencing strategy through expertise, and driving innovation without direct people management responsibilities.
What You'll Do Technical Strategy & ArchitectureThis role offers the opportunity to shape the future technical direction of controls systems powering OCI's next generation of cloud and AI infrastructure while remaining deeply engaged in architecture, engineering, and innovation as a senior individual contributor.
Infrastructure Design and Development-Infrastructure Support:
-Ensures response to data center build and construction related emergencies as needed.
-Oversees design and debug investigations and support failure analysis and resolution activities.
Innovation:
-Leads the research of new designs, materials, and construction methods for data center equipment and related components, including site and building.
-Spearheads the identification of and monitors the need for new tools to improve the quality of data and analytics.
-Architects and evaluates new power and advanced cooling technologies that enable the delivery of artificial intelligence (AI) products and other technologies driving up density and performance in data centers.
-Drives the development of optimal components and solutions for future OCI fleet requirements by partners (e.g., technology providers and design partners).
Innovation-Patent Generation:
-Spearheads the identification of opportunities to generate intellectual property to help strengthen OCI's position as a leader in Cloud Computing.
Quality Assurance-Documentation:
-Drives the development of OCI data center facilities requirements documentation.
Quality Assurance:
-Oversees product evaluation.
-Ensures that quality benchmarks are upheld for new sites, regions, and/or deployments.
Quality Assurance-Standard Development/Maintenance:
-Drives implementation of updates to design standards and specifications for consistency, maximum system reliability and optimal facility utilization.
-Monitors adherence to global data center infrastructure standards.
-Ensures adherence to whitespace design standards.
Stakeholder/Partner Management:
-Leads communication and collaboration with third-party vendors (e.g., data center lease providers, equipment manufacturers), internal cross-functional stakeholders, and data center engineering organizational team.
Team Management-Team Success:
-Ensures the translation of team needs into program goals.
-Leads the prioritization of deliverables based on OCI priorities and industry/historical insights.
-Drives success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., OKRs, KPIs) for feature areas and works across multiple business lines (e.g., Hardware Development, Engineering, Procurement, Data Center Software Analytics) to ensure objectives are supported.
Thermal Management-Thermal Management Solutions:
-Leads partnership cross-functionally (e.g., data center design, construction, mechanical/electrical engineering teams) to ensure the provision of optimized, scalable cooling solutions, as well as thermal solutions optimized for the entire stack.
-Ensures alignment with power and cooling standards (e.g., input voltage, rack density, heat rejection, power consumption) for OCI shapes throughout data center fleet.
Thermal Management-Thermal Testing, Simulation, and Reviews:
-Leads the review of thermal simulation models from partners to identify risks and improve efficiency.
Thermal Management-Thermal Design:
-Ensures alignment of OCI thermal hardware design and data center physical infrastructure.
-Leads collaboration with multifunctional engineering groups to deliver hardware and data center sites that meet the associated thermal specifications.
-Leads collaboration with firmware and controls engineering teams to create robust thermal control and monitoring systems.
-Contributes to high-level thermal design direction and data center strategy for complex systems (e.g., general purpose compute, high-performance computing [HPC], other specialized programs).
Core Responsibilities
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. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
Problem Solving:
-Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.
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. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.
Career Level - IC5