Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Oracle; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, where you will lead the design and development of innovative data services. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge technology, building scalable solutions that empower clients to leverage data effectively. You will collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, driving the evolution of advanced analytical and AI applications. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about delivering high-quality solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you. Enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits while making a significant impact in the tech industry.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Flexible Vacation

Paid parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Life insurance and AD&D

Paid sick leave

Short and long-term disability

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Expertise in designing and building distributed systems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts in designing and building scalable software components.
• Mentor and empower other engineers in the team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape software development.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

Distributed Systems

Microservices

AI/ML

Cloud Development

Troubleshooting

Performance Tuning

Collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

Cloud Platforms (Oracle, AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

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Job Description

Oracle believes in empowering people to do more, through world class capabilities in analytics. We are the Data Services team within Oracle Analytics, responsible for innovating, building, and supporting data service management technologies and capabilities that support our diverse portfolio of products.

Job Description

Oracle believes in empowering people to do more, through world class capabilities in analytics. We are the Data Services team within Oracle Analytics, responsible for innovating, building, and supporting data service management technologies and capabilities that support our diverse portfolio of products.

Data Services organization mission is to provide an easy way to develop advanced analytical and AI applications combining data from across the entire Oracle ecosystem including Databases, Applications, and Object Storages. Data Services already provides a wide array of capabilities for data management and processing, through Big Data Service, Data Catalog, Data Flow, Data Integration Service, and Data Lake. However, customers must integrate and navigate through these services to implement their use cases such as Lakehouses, AI/ML model training, or BI dashboards.

We are building a new data product to give customers a single pane of glass where they can load and secure data, author (Py)Spark notebooks, define data feeds and pipelines, train ML models, query data with SQL and share data to others. Developer experience is a key part of the new data service, enabling enterprise customers to solve complex business problems in a productive way. We will be providing code assist experience to build data and AI projects faster, through context-aware AI assistant.

This is a great opportunity to join a team that is building a cutting-edge service from scratch. We are in aggressive growth journey with a team of highly energetic, technology savvy engineers and are looking to grow further to meet the demands of building a powerful data platform. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment which requires agility, ability to adapt as priorities shift, and a passion to deliver high quality solutions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to contribute.

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for, and lead efforts in, designing and building scalable, distributed, and resilient software components and services to support our new product. You’ve built and operated high-scale cloud infrastructure services and understand how to continuously improve the technology. You can balance feature delivery with iteration and incremental improvements.

This is a senior technical leadership position, and we expect you to think long term, mentor, and empower other engineers. As a technical leader on the team, you will own the complete software development lifecycle, from design, development, testing, to operating in production. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new features and infrastructure, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for broad software design, code quality and architecture decisions
• Lead and direct architecture discussions, design sessions and code reviews for functional correctness, architectural maintainability, and performance.
• Develop long-term technical roadmap for solution area.
• Code for high-risk projects that have solution dependencies within and outside current team.
• Analyze, understand and develop complex architectures, design and associated sub-systems.
• Ability to understand someone else’s complex code very quickly
• Ability to multi-task and deal with changing priorities.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders such as Development leads, Product Management, Operations, Release Management to make, adopt and communicate technical decisions and shape the development and delivery of software.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, with 10+ years of professional experience
• Excellent design and programming skills with expertise in Java, Python, SQL
• Experience designing and building distributed systems
• Experience building micro services on container orchestrator like Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of designing systems for performance, efficiency, and availability with a strong customer focus
• Strong work ethic, flexibility, and proven attention to quality and detail
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting and performance tuning skills in a Cloud environment
• Cloud development experience on one of the major platforms (Oracle, AWS, Azure, GCP)
• AI/ML experience:
• Experience with Generative AI, LLM models, RAG
• Experience with Search technologies
• Experience with Code Generation Assisting technologies
• Big Data skills with open source frameworks like Apache Spark
• Experience working with Notebook technologies
  

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $251,600 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.

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We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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