Senior Robotics Platform Engineer – Lab Automation

Oracle; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible medical

Life insurance

Retirement options

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the founding engineering team in the UK. You will deliver software components for device integration, equipment coordination, and automated laboratory workflows, collaborating with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists.

You will develop backend services, device drivers, and orchestration tools, bridging local execution with cloud platforms, while contributing to reusable automation capabilities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience in robotics, automation, instrumentation, or hardware-connected systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++, with experience in robot programming environments.
• Ability to deliver well-scoped components with guidance on architecture and prioritisation.
• Experience with device communications, vendor SDKs, service APIs, or software integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain software components for device integration and automated laboratory workflow execution.
• Build backend services, APIs, equipment adapters, and data-ingestion components.
• Develop device drivers and robot interfaces using vendor SDKs and protocols.
• Implement state machines, asynchronous operations, and recovery behaviors.

Skills

Python

C++

Robot software

Distributed systems

Asynchronous programming

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Vendor SDKs

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the founding engineering team in the UK. You will deliver software components for device integration, equipment coordination, and automated laboratory workflows, collaborating with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists.

You will develop backend services, device drivers, and orchestration tools, bridging local execution with cloud platforms, while contributing to reusable automation capabilities.