Lead Platform Software Engineer - Robotics

Oracle Corporation; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to design and integrate software for heterogeneous robotic systems and laboratory automation. You will own major platform components from architecture to deployment, building backend services, adapters, and APIs that coordinate devices, sensors, and controllers.

You will work with scientists, product teams, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to translate requirements into reliable platforms, while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering in robotics or related physical systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, Java, or Go with production-grade delivery.
• Experience integrating robotic systems with controllers, sensors, and vendor SDKs.
• Understanding of robotics hardware, motion control, and hardware-software interactions.
• Experience designing reusable architectures, APIs, and distributed components.
• Knowledge of asynchronous execution, concurrency, messaging, persistence, retries, and recovery.
• Practical knowledge of agentic AI, tool integration, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Experience with automated testing and hardware-in-the-loop verification.
• Ability to lead technical work and mentor engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics/Mechatronics/Electrical Eng or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate software for heterogeneous robotic systems and instruments.
• Own major platform components from architecture through deployment and operation.
• Build backend services, APIs, SDKs, adapters, data ingestion, workflows, and tooling.
• Integrate robot controllers, device drivers, vendor SDKs for reliable execution.
• Work with robotic arms, motion controllers, sensors, PLCs, and handling systems.
• Develop reusable abstractions supporting multiple robot types and configurations.
• Implement state machines, asynchronous execution, and fault recovery.
• Connect local execution with cloud orchestration and data platforms.
• Incorporate AI-assisted planning with clear boundaries for safety and execution.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to translate scenarios into software capabilities.
• Guide design, mentor engineers, and participate in coding and testing.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Go

Robotics software

Industrial automation

Software integration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Robotics

Tools

Vendor SDKs

Device drivers

Job description

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to design and integrate software for heterogeneous robotic systems and laboratory automation. You will own major platform components from architecture to deployment, building backend services, adapters, and APIs that coordinate devices, sensors, and controllers.

You will work with scientists, product teams, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to translate requirements into reliable platforms, while mentoring engineers and