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We are looking for a technical leader who is energized by that uncertainty: someone who is willing to experiment, prototype, challenge established approaches, learn quickly, and form strong technical opinions based on evidence. You will explore new capabilities across LLMs, AI agents, reasoning systems, context and retrieval, evaluation, and intelligent automation, while determining which ideas can deliver meaningful and durable improvements to developer productivity.\nSuccess requires more than applying existing AI technologies. You will identify where AI can fundamentally change engineering workflows, develop a technical point of view on where we should invest, and define the architectures and platform capabilities needed to move promising ideas from experimentation to production at OCI scale.\nAs a Lead Principal Engineer, you will influence the technical direction of AI-powered developer experiences across teams and organizational boundaries. You will work with senior engineers, engineering leaders, product managers, AI/ML teams, researchers, and OCI service organizations to identify opportunities, test hypotheses, establish architectural direction, and build alignment around consequential technical decisions.\nYou will remain deeply hands-on. You will build prototypes, evaluate emerging technologies, design foundational systems, and work alongside engineers to prove what is possible. Equally important, you will know when an experiment has provided enough evidence to invest, pivot, or stop-and how to turn successful experimentation into reliable, secure, scalable platform capabilities.\n Responsibilities\nBuild the architecture and technical strategy for AI Acceleration across Developer Tools, identifying where AI can materially improve developer productivity and establishing the foundational platforms, abstractions, and services required to enable those experiences.\nExperiment aggressively and learn quickly by building prototypes, evaluating emerging models and agentic technologies, testing unconventional approaches, and using measurable results to determine which ideas should progress from exploration to production.\nCreate clarity from ambiguity by identifying high-value problems, forming technical hypotheses, challenging assumptions, evaluating competing approaches, and translating rapidly evolving AI capabilities into actionable architectural direction.\nInfluence technical direction across the org building alignment among senior engineers, engineering leaders, AI/ML teams, product organizations, and service teams around architectural choices and strategic investments without relying on direct authority.\nArchitect platforms for AI agents, LLM-powered developer experiences, context and retrieval, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and intelligent automation, with clear separation between rapidly evolving AI technologies and durable platform abstractions.\nEstablish a disciplined path from prototype to production, defining engineering patterns that allow successful experiments to evolve into secure, observable, reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable OCI services.\nRaise the technical bar for AI engineering through architecture reviews, reference implementations, evaluation frameworks, technical mentorship, engineering standards, and clear communication of complex architectural tradeoffs.\nDevelop mechanisms to measure whether AI actually improves the developer experience, using evaluation, telemetry, experimentation, developer feedback, and productivity signals to guide technical decisions and future investment.\nAnticipate changes in models, agent architectures, developer workflows, and AI infrastructure, designing platforms that can evolve without requiring fundamental rearchitecture as the underlying technology changes.\nServe as a senior technical voice for AI Acceleration and Developer Tools, shaping technical strategy and representing the organization in architecture reviews and cross-OCI technical forums.\nRequired Qualifications\n12+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of architecting complex production systems and providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.\nStrong technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer infrastructure, or large-scale backend systems, with the architectural depth to design secure, scalable, reliable, and extensible platforms.\nDemonstrated experience applying or evaluating LLMs, generative AI, AI agents, or related AI technologies, with a strong understanding of both their potential and the engineering challenges involved in building production AI systems.\nProven ability to experiment in ambiguous and rapidly changing technical environments -forming hypotheses, building prototypes, evaluating results, learning from unsuccessful approaches, and turning promising ideas into clear technical direction.\nDemonstrated ability to influence architecture and engineering strategy across teams without direct authority, establish a strong technical point of view, and build alignment among senior technical and organizational stakeholders.\nExperience taking new technologies or platform capabilities from exploration and proof-of-concept through architecture, production deployment, scale, and adoption, while balancing speed of innovation with long-term engineering quality.\nBS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience building AI-powered developer tools, coding agents, engineering assistants, intelligent testing or debugging systems, autonomous development workflows, or AI-driven developer productivity platforms.\nDeep practical knowledge of LLMs, agentic architectures, reasoning models, tool use, context engineering, retrieval, inference, orchestration, evaluation, and emerging AI software engineering patterns.\nExperience designing AI platform abstractions that accommodate rapidly changing models and capabilities while providing stable interfaces, security, observability, governance, and operational reliability.\nTrack record of using experimentation and quantitative evaluation to make decisions about emerging technologies, including defining success criteria and determining when to scale, pivot, or discontinue an approach.\nDemonstrated ability to challenge conventional approaches and introduce new technical directions, while mentoring senior engineers and building organizational consensus around high-impact architectural decisions.\nDisclaimer: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.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. 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.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. 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.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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