AI Platform Architect & Developer Tools Lead

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 97,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

FSAs

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Lead Principal Engineer to shape the architecture for AI Acceleration across Developer Tools. You will explore LLMs, AI agents, and retrieval to boost developer productivity at OCI scale, influencing multiple teams and setting long-term platform direction.

You will stay hands-on, building prototypes, evaluating new AI technologies, and turning experiments into secure, scalable platform capabilities while balancing speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of architecting complex production systems and providing technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer infrastructure, or large-scale backend systems, with architectural depth for secure, scalable platforms.
• Experience applying or evaluating LLMs, generative AI, AI agents, or related AI technologies and building production AI systems.
• Ability to experiment in ambiguous environments, form hypotheses, build prototypes, evaluate results, and translate into technical direction.
• Influence architecture and engineering strategy across teams without direct authority, aligning senior stakeholders.
• Experience moving technologies from exploration to production at scale while balancing speed and long-term quality.
• BS or MS in CS, CE, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect platforms for AI agents, LLM-powered experiences, context and retrieval, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and intelligent automation.
• Lead aggressive experimentation by prototyping, evaluating models, testing unconventional approaches, and measuring results to decide progression to production.
• Create clarity from ambiguity by identifying high-value problems, forming hypotheses, and translating evolving AI capabilities into actionable architectural direction.
• Influence technical direction across the org to build alignment among engineers, AI/ML teams, product organizations, and service teams.
• Establish a disciplined path from prototype to production with secure, observable, reliable, and scalable OCI services.
• Raise the technical bar via architecture reviews, reference implementations, evaluation frameworks, and mentorship.
• Measure whether AI improves developer experience using telemetry, experimentation, and productivity signals.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

LLMs / AI

Experimentation

Technical leadership

Cross-team influence

Architectural design

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

N/A

Job description

Oracle seeks a Lead Principal Engineer to shape the architecture for AI Acceleration across Developer Tools. You will explore LLMs, AI agents, and retrieval to boost developer productivity at OCI scale, influencing multiple teams and setting long-term platform direction.

You will stay hands-on, building prototypes, evaluating new AI technologies, and turning experiments into secure, scalable platform capabilities while balancing speed and reliability.