Principal Software Engineer- Machine Learning and AI Join OCI

Unlock the potential of advanced AI technologies with our renowned Speech & Language Organization. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you'll lead the charge in developing cutting-edge solutions and groundbreaking innovations that redefine human-machine interaction.

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving challenging problems in both AI and cloud service software engineering : design, high-performance virtualized infrastructure, high scale distributed systems, security, and observability.

One cool fact about this opportunity : Our mission includes critical technology which powers Oracle Health. Your efforts will support improving the quality of care patients receive from their doctors.

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OCI’s values are the foundation of how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions.

We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build the best and brightest possible future.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and healthcare professionals, to understand requirements and develop scalable cloud solutions
• Design, develop, and deploy tier-1 multi-tenant cloud-based architectures, ensuring high performance, availability, reliability, and security for handling sensitive data
• Design solutions ensuring efficient data storage, retrieval, and integration for AI inference, finetuning, and model training
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud-based systems to maintain high performance, availability, and cost efficiency
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in cloud and AI technologies to contribute innovative solutions that enhance our products' capabilities
• Conduct performance testing and implement optimization strategies to guarantee optimal system response times and resource utilization

Minimum Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent proven experience
• 6-10+ years' experience building and operating large scale, highly available, cloud based distributed systems
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, C, C++, C#, Go, or Python
• Validated understanding of operating system fundamentals
• Strong understanding of data models and distributed persistence technologies
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Proficiency in network, distributed, asynchronous, and concurrent programming
• Knowledge of professional software engineering standard methodologies for the full software development process
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem solving abilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agile / SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
• Experience with finetuning Large Language Models (LLMs) or Whisper
• Experience building and operating scalable infrastructure software
• Experience using Cloud Native Web Services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Knowledge of Machine Learning fundamentals
• Passion for technical leadership and mentoring
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP / IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Working familiarity with storage principles, protocols, and practices
• Working familiarity with building secure software using modern security principles
• Technical leadership experience

Disclaimer :

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US : Hiring Range : from $94,200 to $223,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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.