Principal Machine Learning Engineer (IC4)

Description

As part of the AI Applications team you will design and build agentic systems that use LLMs to plan reason and take actions across complex this role you will implement multi-step agent flows integrate tools and enterprise systems define outcomes and constraints build evaluation suites and iterate on self-correcting behavior. You will work at the intersection of backend engineering and applied ML integrating LLMs retrieval enterprise data and deterministic policy layers into safe reliable agents capable of performing real tasks. Engineers who enjoy iterating on system behavior and improving agent reliability will excel in this role.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of professional software development experience
• Strong coding skills in Java Python and familiarity with LLM APIs and model outputs.
• Experience building backend services integrations or orchestration layers for multi-step workflows.
• Comfort working with probabilistic model behavior iterative loops and multi-step reasoning tasks.
• Ability to evaluate test and refine agent behavior using runtime signals and structured feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field.
• 5 years of professional software development experience
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered applications or agents.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph or similar libraries.
• Understanding of retrieval embeddings routing and tool-calling patterns.
• Experience designing constraints safety checks or evaluation suites for LLM-integrated systems.
• Experience working in cloud-native environments (Docker Kubernetes CI/CD).
• Interest in long-horizon reasoning such as repo-level tasks migrations or code-from-spec workflows.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic workflows that enable LLMs to plan reason use tools and take multi-step actions.
• Build the APIs services and runtime layers that connect agents with enterprise data sources retrieval systems and policy enforcement layers.
• Work with product teams to define outcomes constraints and evaluation methods for autonomous agents.
• Improve production reliability through observability test harnesses evaluation pipelines and iterative refinement of agent behavior.
• Participate in design and code reviews and contribute to high-quality engineering practices and agent-first architectural design.
• Contribute to research prototyping and tuning efforts for planning tool use and workflow decomposition.

Qualifications
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 in USD from: $96800 to $223400 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 Oracles 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.

Career Level - IC4