AI Platform Lead — OCI, Agents & Scalable Systems

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Disability insurance

Life/AD&D

FSAs

Commuter benefits

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

ESPP

Voluntary insurance

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville seeks a Senior Manager to lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting architecture and driving the delivery of next‑generation AI systems on OCI. This leader will stay hands‑on with design, prototyping, coding, and reviews while steering the program.

You will hire, coach, and manage performance while aligning product goals with durable technical strategy, building scalable inference infrastructure, and ensuring security, observability, and cost efficiency across enterprise

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, including hiring and delivery ownership.
• Proven ability to lead teams while remaining technically engaged in design, coding, reviews, debugging, and operations.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience building AI agents, autonomous workflows, tool‑using systems, or multi‑step orchestration.
• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex or similar tools.
• Strong Python skills and experience with Kubernetes, Docker, observability, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong understanding of AI security, governance, access control, auditability, and operational risk.
• Excellent communication and cross‑functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team responsible for OCI AI platform capabilities, including agent execution, inference, orchestration, evaluation, and observability.
• Set the technical direction for production‑grade agentic AI systems that support reasoning, planning, tool use, multi‑step workflows, and human escalation.
• Remain hands‑on in architecture, prototyping, coding, debugging, and code reviews for critical AI‑agent components.
• Guide the development of services for tool calling, memory, context management, MCP integration, retrieval, multi‑agent coordination, policy enforcement, and evaluation.
• Own delivery across distributed systems optimized for reliability, performance, security, cost, and multi‑tenant operation.
• Translate broad goals into roadmaps, staffing plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner across infrastructure, security, data, product, and application teams to drive execution.
• Establish AgentOps and LLMOps practices for tracing, monitoring, testing, safety guardrails, versioning, and production readiness.
• Recruit, coach, and retain engineers while managing performance and developing senior technical leaders.
• Own production outcomes, including reliability, security, cost efficiency, supportability, and delivery predictability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

AI/ML infrastructure

AI agents

LangGraph/LangChain

LLM patterns

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Security & governance

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/AI/Engineering

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

CrewAI

AutoGen

LlamaIndex

Job description

Oracle in Nashville seeks a Senior Manager to lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting architecture and driving the delivery of next‑generation AI systems on OCI. This leader will stay hands‑on with design, prototyping, coding, and reviews while steering the program.

You will hire, coach, and manage performance while aligning product goals with durable technical strategy, building scalable inference infrastructure, and ensuring security, observability, and cost efficiency across enterprise