Platform Robotics & Automation Engineer

Oracle; Greater London, Reading, Oxford; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle’s London or Reading offices host a hands-on Principal Platform Software Engineer role focused on robotics software, process automation, and physical system integration. You will translate requirements into reliable platforms, owning capabilities from design through deployment and operation.

You will work with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to build reusable automation capabilities, integrate robot controllers and sensors, and guide engineering decisions while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics or related fields.
• Strong Python and C++/Java/Go production software experience.
• Experience integrating robotic systems with controllers, sensors, and device interfaces.
• Understanding of robotics hardware, motion control, states, timing, and hardware/software interactions.
• Experience designing reusable architectures and APIs for distributed platforms.
• Knowledge of asynchronous execution, messaging, persistence, and recovery from partial failures.
• Experience with AI, tool integration, context/state management, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Robotics or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and deploy substantial platform capabilities into production.
• Define modular service boundaries and reusable components across integration, orchestration, and data acquisition.
• Develop communications middleware and event-driven integrations with equipment and cloud services.
• Acquire instrument measurements and metadata while preserving provenance and traceability.
• Automate configuration, diagnostics, testing, and routine operations.
• Lead code reviews, document decisions, and contribute to engineering plans.
• Collaborate with safety, controls, and cross-disciplinary teams to translate customer scenarios into software tasks.
• Ensure reliability through testing, monitoring, and on-call incident response.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Go

Robotics software

Distributed systems

AI platforms

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelors in CS/Robotics

Tools

ROS 2

Docker

Kubernetes

Vendor SDKs

DDS

Job description

Oracle’s London or Reading offices host a hands-on Principal Platform Software Engineer role focused on robotics software, process automation, and physical system integration. You will translate requirements into reliable platforms, owning capabilities from design through deployment and operation.

You will work with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to build reusable automation capabilities, integrate robot controllers and sensors, and guide engineering decisions while