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  • Oracle
  • Seattle, WA
  • Full-Time
  • 81 days ago
  • $169,800–$355,400
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Lead Principal Machine Learning Engineer.

Data Science & ML Full-Time

Lead Principal Machine Learning Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This is a senior AI and machine learning engineering role focused on building production-grade agentic AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • The Person:The person will define architecture, build and operate AI platforms, lead multi-team execution, and stay hands-on in design, code, reviews, operations, and incident follow-up.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has deep distributed systems experience and practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, APIs, memory, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cloud services.

About the role

The Senior Principal AI Agent / ML Software Engineer is a Senior Staff-level, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, building, and operating next-generation AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This person will set architecture and engineering direction for production-grade agentic AI platforms, autonomous workflows, scalable inference infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications used in large-scale, business-critical environments.

This role requires a proven engineer who can translate ambiguous product and platform goals into durable technical strategy, lead multi-team execution without direct authority, and remain deeply hands-on in design, code, reviews, operations, and incident follow-up. The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems experience with practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, APIs, memory, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cloud services. The expectation is to ship, scale, and operate reliable, secure, observable, and cost-aware AI platform systems while raising the technical bar for engineers across the organization.

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Published July 14, 2026
Location Seattle, WA
Category Data Science & ML  
Job Type Full-Time