About the role

What will you do at Oracle?

This is an emerging space where the technology, developer expectations, and best

practices are changing quickly. We are looking for a technical leader who is

energized by that uncertainty: someone who is willing to experiment, prototype,

challenge established approaches, learn quickly, and form strong technical

opinions based on evidence. You will explore new capabilities across LLMs, AI

agents, reasoning systems, context and retrieval, evaluation, and intelligent

automation, while determining which ideas can deliver meaningful and durable

improvements to developer productivity.

Success requires more than applying existing AI technologies. You will identify

where AI can fundamentally change engineering workflows, develop a technical

point of view on where we should invest, and define the architectures and

platform capabilities needed to move promising ideas from experimentation to

production at OCI scale.

As a Lead Principal Engineer, you will influence the technical direction of

AI-powered developer experiences across teams and organizational boundaries. You

will work with senior engineers, engineering leaders, product managers, AI/ML

teams, researchers, and OCI service organizations to identify opportunities,

test hypotheses, establish architectural direction, and build alignment around

consequential technical decisions.

You will remain deeply hands-on. You will build prototypes, evaluate emerging

technologies, design foundational systems, and work alongside engineers to prove

what is possible. Equally important, you will know when an experiment has

provided enough evidence to invest, pivot, or stop—and how to turn successful

experimentation into reliable, secure, scalable platform capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities

* Build the architecture and technical strategy for AI Acceleration across
Developer Tools, identifying where AI can materially improve developer
productivity and establishing the foundational platforms, abstractions, and
services required to enable those experiences.
* Experiment aggressively and learn quickly by building prototypes, evaluating
emerging models and agentic technologies, testing unconventional approaches,
and using measurable results to determine which ideas should progress from
exploration to production.
* Create clarity from ambiguity by identifying high-value problems, forming
technical hypotheses, challenging assumptions, evaluating competing
approaches, and translating rapidly evolving AI capabilities into actionable
architectural direction.
* Influence technical direction across the org building alignment among senior
engineers, engineering leaders, AI/ML teams, product organizations, and
service teams around architectural choices and strategic investments without
relying on direct authority.
* Architect platforms for AI agents, LLM-powered developer experiences, context
and retrieval, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and intelligent
automation, with clear separation between rapidly evolving AI technologies
and durable platform abstractions.
* Establish a disciplined path from prototype to production, defining
engineering patterns that allow successful experiments to evolve into secure,
observable, reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable OCI services.
* Raise the technical bar for AI engineering through architecture reviews,
reference implementations, evaluation frameworks, technical mentorship,
engineering standards, and clear communication of complex architectural
tradeoffs.
* Develop mechanisms to measure whether AI actually improves the developer
experience, using evaluation, telemetry, experimentation, developer feedback,
and productivity signals to guide technical decisions and future investment.
* Anticipate changes in models, agent architectures, developer workflows, and
AI infrastructure, designing platforms that can evolve without requiring
fundamental rearchitecture as the underlying technology changes.
* Serve as a senior technical voice for AI Acceleration and Developer Tools,
shaping technical strategy and representing the organization in architecture
reviews and cross-OCI technical forums.
Required Qualifications
* 12+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record
of architecting complex production systems and providing technical leadership
across multiple engineering teams.
* Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud platforms,
developer infrastructure, or large-scale backend systems, with the
architectural depth to design secure, scalable, reliable, and extensible
platforms.
* Demonstrated experience applying or evaluating LLMs, generative AI, AI
agents, or related AI technologies, with a strong understanding of both their
potential and the engineering challenges involved in building production AI
systems.
* Proven ability to experiment in ambiguous and rapidly changing technical
environments—forming hypotheses, building prototypes, evaluating results,
learning from unsuccessful approaches, and turning promising ideas into clear
technical direction.
* Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and engineering strategy
across teams without direct authority, establish a strong technical point of
view, and build alignment among senior technical and organizational
stakeholders.
* Experience taking new technologies or platform capabilities from exploration
and proof-of-concept through architecture, production deployment, scale, and
adoption, while balancing speed of innovation with long-term engineering
quality.
* BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical
field, or equivalent practical experience.
Desired Qualifications
* Experience building AI-powered developer tools, coding agents, engineering
assistants, intelligent testing or debugging systems, autonomous development
workflows, or AI-driven developer productivity platforms.
* Deep practical knowledge of LLMs, agentic architectures, reasoning models,
tool use, context engineering, retrieval, inference, orchestration,
evaluation, and emerging AI software engineering patterns.
* Experience designing AI platform abstractions that accommodate rapidly
changing models and capabilities while providing stable interfaces, security,
observability, governance, and operational reliability.
* Track record of using experimentation and quantitative evaluation to make
decisions about emerging technologies, including defining success criteria
and determining when to scale, pivot, or discontinue an approach.
* Demonstrated ability to challenge conventional approaches and introduce new
technical directions, while mentoring senior engineers and building
organizational consensus around high-impact architectural decisions.
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QUALIFICATIONS
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to
comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health
mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the
stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for
bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for
variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as
well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as
well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees
assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is
provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees
working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days
annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for
subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees
working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours
per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes
each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap
of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days
from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law,
US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which
involves the collection and processing of their biometric information.
Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized
assessment.
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expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And
with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that
promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company
leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.
True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why
we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with
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insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to
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