Key Responsibilities
Rack-Level Electrical Architecture & Integration
- Define rack-level electrical architectures supporting high-density compute platforms.
- Translate hardware electrical requirements into deployable rack specifications compatible with OCI data center power infrastructure.
- Define integration requirements for rack electrical components including power shelves, rPDUs, busbars, cabling, and high-current connectors .
- Establish rack-level power distribution, redundancy models, and protection boundaries in coordination with data center electrical infrastructure teams.
- Participate in design reviews with hardware engineering teams to ensure new platforms integrate cleanly into OCI rack standards.
Hardware Power Characterization & Validation
- Define and support electrical characterization testing for new IT hardware platforms.
- Develop testing methodologies to measure power consumption, transient load behavior, and electrical compatibility with rack power infrastructure.
- Ensure characterization data supports rack design specifications, capacity planning models, and infrastructure planning.
- Work with lab teams and vendors to validate electrical performance prior to deployment.
Electrical Telemetry & Cross-Functional Systems Integration
- Define requirements for rack-level power telemetry and instrumentation .
- Partner with software and data engineering teams to ensure telemetry from power shelves, rPDUs, and hardware sensors is accessible and usable at fleet scale.
- Serve as the electrical domain expert within DCEAM across hardware engineering, facilities engineering, and operations teams.
- Support development of rack standards and electrical interface specifications that enable consistent global deployments.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering , Power Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in electrical engineering related to data center infrastructure, hardware platforms, or high-density power systems .
- Strong understanding of:
- rack-level power distribution architectures
- high-current electrical systems
- power supply or power shelf architectures
- electrical reliability and failure modes
- Experience working with data center power infrastructure , including familiarity with electrical one-line diagrams, UPS architectures, and transformer-based power distribution.
- Experience writing technical specifications, requirements, or engineering standards .
- Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear engineering specifications and documentation .
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting high-density AI or GPU compute platforms (>40 kW racks) .
- Familiarity with data center power quality metrics , including ITHD and related harmonic or power quality considerations.
- Experience with AC/DC power supply input stage design or power electronics integration.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies such as solid-state transformers or advanced power conversion architectures .
- Understanding of AI training workloads and their impact on power demand patterns at the data center or grid level .
- Experience working with hardware ODMs, OEMs, or rack integrators.
- Familiarity with hyperscale rack standards (e.g., ORv3 or Open Compute designs).
