Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - AI-Powered Digital Twin Platform

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 114,600 - 234,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Principal Software Developer to design and build an AI-powered Digital Twin platform that integrates real-time data, digital models, simulation, graph technologies, and generative AI agents to help customers predict outcomes and automate safe actions.

Lead feature development across teams, ensure explainability and policy compliance of AI recommendations, and partner with product managers, scientists, and engineers to translate customer requirements into scalable platform features.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience building large-scale production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C++ or comparable language.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, APIs, databases, and cloud architecture.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, multi-tenant cloud services.
• Experience with generative AI, large language models, RAG, AI agents or agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with graph databases, vector search, event streaming, time-series data, or simulation systems.
• Experience delivering complex projects across multiple services or teams.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and system-design skills.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and influence without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale services for digital models, telemetry, state management, relationships, simulation, and real-time analytics.
• Build AI agents that reason over digital twin data, enterprise knowledge, and operational systems.
• Develop capabilities for RAG, graph-based retrieval, agent orchestration, tool use, memory, evaluation, and human approval.
• Define technical designs and influence architecture across multiple components and teams.
• Build secure, reliable, observable distributed systems for enterprise cloud environments.
• Ensure AI recommendations are explainable, auditable, and policy-compliant.
• Partner with product managers, scientists, and engineers to translate customer requirements into scalable platform features.
• Lead feature development from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Improve engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, and technical mentoring.
• Investigate and resolve performance, reliability, data consistency, and production issues.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Generative AI

AI agents

Graph databases

Kubernetes

LangGraph

LangChain

Tools

Kubernetes

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

OCI Generative AI Agents

graph databases

vector databases

Job description

Job Overview

Oracle seeks a Principal Software Developer to design and build an AI-powered Digital Twin platform integrating real‑time data, digital models, simulation, graph technologies, and generative AI agents to help customers predict outcomes, investigate issues, and automate safe actions.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale services for digital models, telemetry, state management, relationships, simulation, and real‑time analytics.
• Build AI agents that reason over digital twin data, enterprise knowledge, and operational systems.
• Develop capabilities for RAG, graph‑based retrieval, agent orchestration, tool use, memory, evaluation, and human approval.
• Define technical designs and influence architecture across multiple components and teams.
• Build secure, reliable, observable distributed systems for enterprise cloud environments.
• Ensure AI recommendations are explainable, auditable, and policy‑compliant.
• Partner with product managers, scientists, and engineers to translate customer requirements into scalable platform features.
• Lead feature development from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Improve engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, and technical mentoring.
• Investigate and resolve performance, reliability, data consistency, and production issues.

Qualifications

• 8+ years software engineering experience building large‑scale production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C++ or comparable language.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, APIs, databases, and cloud architecture.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, multi‑tenant cloud services.
• Experience with generative AI, large language models, RAG, AI agents or agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with graph databases, vector search, event streaming, time‑series data, or simulation systems.
• Experience delivering complex projects across multiple services or teams.
• Strong debugging, problem‑solving, and system‑design skills.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and influence without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with digital twins, IoT, industrial systems, cloud operations, or simulation platforms.
• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, OCI Generative AI Agents or similar.
• Knowledge of LLMOps, agent evaluation, prompt and policy versioning, model monitoring, and AI governance.
• Experience building knowledge graphs and enterprise RAG solutions.
• Experience applying AI agents to root‑cause analysis, predictive maintenance, optimization, incident response, or remediation.
• Experience with OCI, Oracle Database, Kubernetes, graph databases, streaming platforms, or vector databases.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership for major platform initiatives.

Benefits & Compensation

• US salary range: $114,600‑$234,600 per year, with potential bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision; short‑term and long‑term disability; life insurance; health and dependent care flexible spending accounts; pre‑tax commuter benefits; 401(k) with company match; paid time off & holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; employee stock purchase plan; financial planning; voluntary benefits.

EEO Statement

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Oracle will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Career Level – IC4