Principal Platform Software Engineer - Robotics

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seeks a Senior Principal Product Manager for Robotics Automation to define the product vision, roadmap, and initial scope for a platform that helps scientists and enterprises automate physical workflows reliably and safely.

You will lead discovery, identify valuable problems, define pilot use cases, and shape long-term platform strategy for integrating robots, instruments, workflows, and cloud services, working with customers, engineering, and partners.

Qualifications

• 11 years of experience in software development.
• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field.
• Experience delivering highly technical products and platforms for cloud, automation, or enterprise software.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision, product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for Robotics Automation.
• Collaborate with strategic customers, scientists, lab operators, and automation partners to understand workflows and needs.
• Identify and prioritize pilot use cases with measurable success criteria.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user journeys, and engineering priorities.
• Partner with Robotics Platform Engineers to balance value, safety, reliability, cost, and delivery time.
• Drive the product lifecycle from discovery to pilot, launch, and continuous improvement.

Job description

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Senior Principal Product Manager for Robotics Automation. You will define the product vision, roadmap, and initial scope for a new platform that helps scientific and enterprise customers automate physical workflows reliably and safely.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for a technically strong product leader. You will work closely with customers, scientists, engineering, applied science, hardware and automation partners, and OCI platform teams to turn real operating workflows into a clear, scalable product direction.

Initially, you will lead discovery and product definition: identify the most valuable customer problems, define the first pilot use cases, establish success measures, and recommend what should be built next. You will also help shape the longer-term platform strategy for integrating robots, instruments, workflow systems, and cloud services.

What You'll Do

• Define the vision, product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for Robotics Automation.
• Work directly with strategic customers, scientists, lab operators, and automation partners to understand workflows, constraints, and unmet needs.
• Identify and prioritize the first pilot use cases; define customer value, desired outcomes, acceptance criteria, and measures of success.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user journeys, policies, and engineering priorities.
• Partner with the Robotics Platform Engineer to evaluate technical options, make scope and sequencing decisions, and balance customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and delivery time.
• Define the product model for managing organizations, shared resources, access rules, workload priorities, and operational policies.
• Establish success measures for adoption, workflow completion, operator intervention, reliability, resource use, cost, and customer value.
• Define the requirements for administrator, monitoring, and troubleshooting experiences in partnership with Shared Experience & Authoring.
• Build the case for future investment in Robotics Automation based on pilot results, customer feedback, market opportunity, and technical feasibility.
• Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prototype through pilot, launch, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate strategy, trade-offs, progress, risks, and recommendations to executives and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Influence across Product, Engineering, Applied Science, Security, Operations, Finance, and customer teams without formal authority.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Life Sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of product management experience for highly technical products, platforms, cloud services, automation systems, or enterprise software.
• Experience defining product vision, roadmaps, requirements, and success measures for complex customer-facing products.
• Experience working closely with technically demanding customers and translating detailed workflows into scalable product capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment across cloud platforms, distributed systems, workflow orchestration, data platforms, APIs, or automation systems.
• Experience with robotics, lab automation, industrial automation, scientific workflows, AI-enabled systems, or hardware-software products is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to make clear trade-offs among scope, customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and time to market.
• Experience defining and evaluating pilot programs, including measurable business and operational outcomes.
• Strong written, analytical, customer-engagement , and executive-communication skills.

This job involves travel on an as-needed basis.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 11 years of experience in software development
• Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development
• Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Info