Lead Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer

About the role

The Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer is a Senior Staff-level, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, building, and operating next-generation AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This person will set architecture and engineering direction for production-grade agentic AI platforms, autonomous workflows, scalable inference infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications used in large-scale, business-critical environments.

Key responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous product and platform goals into durable technical strategy
• Lead multi-team execution without direct authority
• Remain deeply hands-on in design, code, reviews, operations, and incident follow-up
• Ship, scale, and operate reliable, secure, observable, and cost-aware AI platform systems
• Raise the technical bar for engineers across the organization

Required experience

• Proven distributed systems experience
• Practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, APIs, memory, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cloud services
• Ability to combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking

About Oracle

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. With AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all.

Commitment to inclusion

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. Oracle is committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support employees with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. Employees are encouraged to give back to their communities through volunteer programs.

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Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.