Sr Hardware Developer, GPU/AI and Compute

Oracle hardware development engineering, within Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure development, is seeking a highly driven GPU Platform Hardware Engineer at the Senior Engineer level. The GPU Hardware Engineer will work within development engineering with a small team of talented engineers who lead the development and day-to-day engineering efforts for Oracle’s rapidly growing and successful Cloud AI platforms.

You will participate in hardware development oversight & in house development, design reviews, Hardware integration, debug, and performance testing. You will interact closely with third party GPU IC suppliers & partners as well as internal hardware and software development engineers. You will be a critical part of the team developing Oracle’s growing Cloud AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Review and assessment of third-party merchant silicon.
• Evaluation of system architecture and proposed implementation path analysis.
• Participate in platform definition and analysis.
• Provide platform development oversight for partners.
• Work with in-house engineering functional experts on design and reviews.
• Support system integration, performance testing, debug and characterization.
• Support program managers on technical assessments.
• Interact closely with third party GPU IC suppliers & partners as well as internal hardware, software development, quality assurance, cloud orchestration, hardware and software security experts, and Oracle manufacturing teams.
• Document and specify design intent and design details where appropriate in collaboration with the appropriate engineering teams.
• Participate in hardware platform security evaluations.
• Guide partner internal Oracle teams on support needed to scale, monitor, and successfully deploy our products to the Cloud.
• Assist Oracle Cloud and Support teams in the root-cause of potential hardware or software bugs through firsthand lab replication debug, remote debug, and calls with the appropriate teams supporting our deployed products.
• Work with Oracle manufacturing teams to ensure that Oracle hardware is secure, robustly evaluated, performing at peak capabilities and well qualified for deployment to our Cloud customers.

Required Qualifications

• Technical hands-on experience with market leading GPU (or alternate AI platforms) from the hardware and platform development, test, and characterization perspectives.
• Good knowledge of AI / GPU platform architecture and their capabilities.
• A strong understanding and experience running firmware and system diagnostics tools using BMC firmware, UEFI/ BIOS and Linux tools. Skilled in scripting to customize tests.
• Demonstrated working experience with GPU supplier test code as well as open-source AI test / characterization tools.
• Experience with design, and implementation of modern server platforms consisting of multiple architectures and vendors, including x86 and ARM server architectures.
• Experience with hardware development at the board, and FPGA level.
• Required experience with board ECAD level tools and ability to reviews hierarchical schematics, multilayer advance board layout, cross board interconnect and end-to-end connectivity analysis.
• Strong communications skills and ability to clearly communicate complex technical issue across engineering disciplines as well as clearly and succinctly articulate issues for executives.
• Demonstrated experience debugging and root-causing complex issues that may have a mix of hardware and software causes.
• Experience with early stage bring-up and power-on, platform firmware debugging, prototype GPU & CPU complex and memory complex debugging.
• An ability to isolate a problem to the source and the required creativity & expertise to devise timely and robust solutions.
• Experience and understanding of the latest high-speed busses and interconnect used in modern Compute and AI platforms. Familiarity with their startup connectivity and operational robustness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of "low-level" hardware component interfaces, including, but not limited to, e.g.: PCIe, SPI, I2C (incl. SMBus, PMBus), LPC, eSPI, etc.
• Comfortable with the use of hardware debuggers, O’Scopes, and advanced Signal characterization measurement tools.
• Experience with platform level security technologies present an advantage in the role.

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