Oracle

Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer, AI Acceleration, Developer Tools

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1 month ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$97k - $306k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build the architecture and technical strategy for AI Acceleration across Developer Tools and establish foundational platforms, abstractions, and services.
  • Prototype and evaluate emerging models, agentic technologies, and unconventional approaches using measurable results to guide investment decisions.
  • Architect platforms for AI agents, LLM-powered developer experiences, context and retrieval, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and intelligent automation.
  • Create a disciplined path from prototype to secure, observable, reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable production OCI services.
  • Influence architecture and engineering strategy across teams, build alignment among technical and organizational stakeholders, and represent the organization in technical forums.
  • Raise AI engineering quality through architecture reviews, reference implementations, evaluation frameworks, mentorship, standards, and technical communication.
  • Measure AI-driven improvements to developer experience using evaluation, telemetry, experimentation, feedback, and productivity signals.
  • Anticipate changes in models, agent architectures, developer workflows, and AI infrastructure while designing adaptable platform abstractions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience architecting complex production systems and providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
  • Strong foundation in distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer infrastructure, or large-scale backend systems, including secure, scalable, reliable, and extensible platform architecture.
  • Experience applying or evaluating LLMs, generative AI, AI agents, or related AI technologies and understanding the challenges of production AI systems.
  • Experience experimenting in ambiguous technical environments, building prototypes, evaluating results, and turning promising ideas into technical direction.
  • Ability to influence architecture and engineering strategy across teams without direct authority and align senior technical and organizational stakeholders.
  • Experience taking technologies or platform capabilities from proof of concept through architecture, production deployment, scale, and adoption.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience building AI-powered developer tools, coding agents, engineering assistants, intelligent testing or debugging systems, autonomous development workflows, or AI-driven developer productivity platforms.
  • Preferred knowledge of LLMs, agentic architectures, reasoning models, tool use, context engineering, retrieval, inference, orchestration, evaluation, and emerging AI software engineering patterns.
  • Preferred experience designing adaptable AI platform abstractions with stable interfaces, security, observability, governance, and operational reliability.
  • Preferred track record using experimentation and quantitative evaluation to make decisions about emerging technologies and mentoring senior engineers.

Benefits

  • US hiring range is $96,800 to $306,400 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) matching, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal services, and voluntary insurance benefits.
  • US-based employees must complete identity verification involving biometric information, subject to legally permitted accommodations.

Tech Stack

Oracle Cloud
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About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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