Director, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle's OCI Robotics Cloud seeks a Director to define the long-term platform architecture and lead AI-driven engineering efforts for a greenfield cloud platform. You will establish APIs, SDKs, and edge frameworks to onboard diverse robots and drive developer productivity.

You will recruit and mentor a world-class cloud engineering team, fostering a culture of excellence, ownership, and customer focus while coordinating with OCI AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Services to scale

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• 12+ years building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software platforms.
• 5+ years of engineering management leading multiple software teams.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale cloud platforms end-to-end.
• Strong background in distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Demonstrated success hiring and scaling engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term architecture and technical vision for OCI Robotics Cloud.
• Build the cloud platform enabling robot registration, identity, fleet management, and telemetry.
• Establish APIs, service contracts, SDKs, and edge service frameworks for multi-vendor robots.
• Lead AI-driven, spec-driven onboarding where AI generates contracts, SDKs, and guidance.
• Drive adoption of AI across the software lifecycle to improve productivity and quality.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class cloud engineering organization.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, customer obsession, and continuous innovation.
• Direct engineering execution across planning, delivery, reliability, security, and observability.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

APIs and service contracts

Cloud platforms

AI-enabled software development

Hiring and mentoring

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering/Robotics

Tools

ROS 2

DDS

MQTT

OPC-UA

Job description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we are building the next generation of cloud services for autonomous and intelligent robotics.

OCI Robotics Cloud is Oracle's strategic cloud platform for robotics. Our mission is to enable enterprises to seamlessly onboard, manage, monitor, and operate heterogeneous robot fleets through secure, scalable, AI-powered cloud services.

Unlike traditional robotics platforms that focus on individual robots, OCI Robotics Cloud is building the cloud operating system for robotics—providing common services for robot identity, registration, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, software lifecycle management, and AI-powered automation.

A key part of our vision is an AI-driven, spec-based robot onboarding platform that enables robots from any vendor to integrate rapidly through standardized cloud interfaces, reusable edge services, and AI-generated service contracts.

As Director of OCI Robotics Cloud, you will build both the platform and the organization that will define Oracle's long-term robotics strategy.

This is a rare opportunity to build a greenfield cloud platform with executive visibility and industry-wide impact at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, robotics, and edge computing.

About You

You are a builder.

You enjoy creating organizations, platforms, and engineering cultures from the ground up.

You have successfully led engineering teams building large-scale cloud platforms and understand how to balance long-term technical vision with rapid execution.

You believe great platforms are built around reusable abstractions, developer productivity, and operational excellence.

You are passionate about AI and understand how generative AI can fundamentally improve software engineering, developer experience, and platform automation.

You have a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and growing exceptional engineering organizations.

You communicate effectively with engineers, architects, product leaders, customers, and executive leadership.

What You'll Do

Define the Platform

• Define the long-term architecture and technical vision for OCI Robotics Cloud.
• Build the cloud platform enabling robot registration, identity, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, and software lifecycle management.
• Establish common APIs, service contracts, SDKs, and edge service frameworks that support robots from multiple vendors.

Lead AI-driven Engineering

• Lead the development of an AI-assisted, spec-driven robot onboarding platform where AI generates service contracts, edge service specifications, SDKs, implementation guidance, and developer documentation.
• Drive adoption of AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity and platform quality.

Build the Organization

• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class cloud engineering organization.
• Build a culture centered on engineering excellence, ownership, customer obsession, and continuous innovation.
• Coach engineering managers and senior technical leaders while developing future organizational leadership.

Deliver at Scale

• Drive engineering execution across architecture, planning, prioritization, delivery, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmap and customer adoption strategy.
• Collaborate across OCI AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Developer Services, and strategic robotics partners.
• Represent OCI Robotics Cloud in executive reviews, customer engagements, and strategic technology initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software platforms.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading multiple software engineering teams.
• Proven experience defining and delivering large-scale cloud platforms from concept to production.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and modern software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated success hiring and scaling engineering organizations.
• Outstanding communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud robotics, IoT, autonomous systems, or edge computing platforms.
• Familiarity with ROS 2 and modern robotics software architectures.
• Experience with DDS, MQTT, OPC-UA, VDA5050, or related robotics communication technologies.
• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or service contract frameworks.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development, developer productivity platforms, or agentic AI systems.
• Exposure to embodied AI, vision-language models, robot fleet management, digital twins, or teleoperation platforms.
• Experience working with heterogeneous hardware ecosystems and partner integrations.

Why Join Us

• Build Oracle's cloud platform for the next generation of intelligent robotics.
• Pioneer AI-driven, spec-based robot onboarding technologies.
• Define the open cloud interfaces that enable robots from any vendor to integrate with OCI.
• Lead one of Oracle's newest strategic engineering organizations.
• Collaborate with world-class engineers across OCI AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Services.
• Shape Oracle's long-term strategy for cloud robotics, AI, and autonomous systems.

Vision

Our vision is to make robot onboarding as simple as cloud onboarding.

We believe AI will fundamentally transform how robots are integrated into enterprise systems by automatically generating service contracts, edge services, SDKs, APIs, implementation guidance, and operational best practices.

OCI Robotics Cloud is building the cloud platform that allows any robot—from any vendor—to securely connect to Oracle Cloud through standardized interfaces rather than custom integrations.

As Director of OCI Robotics Cloud, you will build the engineering organization that turns this vision into reality.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $122,500 - $355,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M4

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