Senior AI Software Engineer

Description

As a Senior AI Software Engineer in an AI Innovation organization within OCI you will help build AI capabilities into Oracle products through strong software engineering technical leadership and high-quality execution.

This is a software engineering role for someone who can work confidently across large codebases design reliable systems and deliver production-ready features at speed. You will contribute to the architecture implementation and evolution of AI-enabled product capabilities working closely with engineering product and AI teams.

Responsibilities

• Design architect and deliver scalable agentic AI systems capable of reasoning planning tool use workflow execution multi-step task orchestration and safe human-in-the-loop escalation.

• Serve as a technical owner for OCI AI platform capabilities including agent execution inference systems model serving AI workflow orchestration evaluation and observability.

• Build production-grade services for tool calling agent memory context management Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration vector retrieval multi-agent coordination policy enforcement and evaluation.

• Develop distributed services optimized for low latency high throughput GPU efficiency reliability cost operability and secure multi-tenant operation.

• Define service boundaries APIs data models state management consistency tradeoffs failure modes SLIs/SLOs rollout strategies and operational readiness criteria for AI platform services.

• Integrate AI agents securely and reliably with enterprise APIs cloud services databases identity systems secrets management and external systems.

• Establish AgentOps and LLMOps practices for tracing monitoring eval suites regression testing experimentation safety guardrails prompt/tool versioning and production reliability.

• Evaluate and operationalize emerging technologies in generative AI agentic workflows inference optimization long-context systems reasoning models AI developer tooling and agentic-first development.

• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews design reviews test strategy deployment automation incident analysis documentation and AI-assisted development practices using tools such as Codex Claude Code Cursor Copilot or similar systems.

• Own critical production outcomes including reliability performance security posture cost efficiency and supportability for the systems delivered.

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: $92500 to $209500 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 - IC3