Oracle is seeking a Senior Product Engineer – Server Platforms to drive supplier qualification, component validation, New Product Introduction (NPI), manufacturing readiness, and supplier quality initiatives for advanced hardware products. This role serves as a key technical liaison between Oracle engineering teams and manufacturing suppliers throughout the product lifecycle.
Ideal candidates come from server supply chain, electronics manufacturing, semiconductor, datacenter hardware, supplier quality, or NPI engineering environments.
Internal Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
New Product Introduction:
Define mass-production test approaches for an assigned product during NPI.
Monitor External Manufacturer (EM) execution during engineering builds and adherence to Oracle production, quality, and security standards.
Analyze product and supply-chain information, including Linux-accessible connection, configuration, and test data.
Support local production, triage issues, collect evidence, and coordinate work with external-manufacturer and remote PE partners.
Execute supplier/component assessments, NPI tasks, audits, RCA/CAPA activities, and continuous-improvement work.
Qualify Components:
Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security, and Test Engineering teams to perform qualification of alternate components ensuring components meet functional and performance requirements.
External Manufacturer Engagement:
Defines and continuously improves the assembly and test process for suppliers throughout the product lifecycle.
Acts as a technical liaison between EM and internal teams to facilitate effective communication and issue resolution.
Failure Analysis:
Participates in quality excursions by supporting root cause analyses (RCA) and by recommending corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) within the supply chain.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Collaborates with Design, Operations, Quality, and Procurement teams to ensure alignment of product manufacturing strategies with product development goals.
Contributes to cross-functional projects aimed at improving product quality, reducing costs, and enhancing supply chain performance.
Provides technical support during design changes, process optimizations, and supply chain transitions.
Analyzes and course corrects complex problems before escalating hurdles to management.
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.
External Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
New Product Introduction:
Define mass-production test approaches for an assigned product during NPI.
Monitor External Manufacturer (EM) execution during engineering builds and adherence to Oracle production, quality, and security standards.
Analyze product and supply-chain information, including Linux-accessible connection, configuration, and test data.
Support local production, triage issues, collect evidence, and coordinate work with external-manufacturer and remote PE partners.
Execute supplier/component assessments, NPI tasks, audits, RCA/CAPA activities, and continuous-improvement work.
Qualify Components:
Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security, and Test Engineering teams to perform qualification of alternate components ensuring components meet functional and performance requirements.
External Manufacturer Engagement:
Defines and continuously improves the assembly and test process for suppliers throughout the product lifecycle.
Acts as a technical liaison between EM and internal teams to facilitate effective communication and issue resolution.
Failure Analysis:
Participates in quality excursions by supporting root cause analyses (RCA) and by recommending corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) within the supply chain.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Collaborates with Design, Operations, Quality, and Procurement teams to ensure alignment of product manufacturing strategies with product development goals.
Contributes to cross-functional projects aimed at improving product quality, reducing costs, and enhancing supply chain performance.
Provides technical support during design changes, process optimizations, and supply chain transitions.
Analyzes and course corrects complex problems before escalating hurdles to management.
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.
