Principal Software Engineer - AI/ML

**Job Description** Join Oracle's Health Data Intelligence (HDI) team to build a best-in-class, cloud-native research platform for healthcare and life sciences. HDI addresses the challenge of integrating, reasoning over, and delivering actionable insights from vast, heterogeneous biomedical datasets. As a Principal Software Engineer (IC4), you will provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and delivering scalable platform services, secure cloud networking, agentic workflows, and explainable AI integration. You'll partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to build high-availability, compliant solutions powering next-generation research. **Responsibilities** - Drive architecture and hands-on development of distributed, scalable services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using industry best practices - Lead the design and optimization of multi-tenant, high-availability backend services such as session management, audit logging, role-based access control, and event-driven workflows - Architect and implement secure authentication/authorization flows - Collaborate with agent/AI/ML teams to enable explainable, evidence-backed research workflows leveraging LLMs, semantic/vector search, and multi-turn sessions - Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards (HIPAA, GDPR); implement fine-grained RBAC and auditability at all platform layers - Mentor staff/lead engineers, review designs, champion engineering best practices, and foster a high-performing, collaborative culture - Work closely with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable, scalable technical solutions - Design for observability, automated deployment, and rapid failover/disaster recovery in OCI environments **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field - 8+ years of software development experience, including substantial leadership in cloud SaaS/IaaS systems engineering - Proven track record architecting, building, and operating distributed, services-based platforms at scale - Strong experience with cloud-native infrastructure (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, VCNs, and secure networking - Experience integrating with AI/ML workflows, data pipelines, or agent-based systems - Experience embedding explainable AI, research knowledge graphs, or LLM-driven conversational UIs in production systems - Expertise in designing for compliance, privacy, and rigorous audit requirements - Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for mentorship and technical leadership **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in authentication/authorization standards (SSO, OAuth2, JWT), and implementing policy-driven security in enterprise environments - Experience in healthcare/life sciences data platforms, regulatory compliance, and privacy frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR) - Experience driving platform quality through CI/CD, DevOps, and automated testing practices **Why Oracle/HDI** - Build and own mission-critical, modern cloud solutions shaping the future of healthcare and life sciences research - Collaborate with talented teams across engineering, AI/ML, security, and product functions - Drive innovation using cutting-edge enterprise cloud, data, and AI/ML technology - Meaningful impact on global health through trusted, actionable insights and research acceleration \#LI-HR1 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 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. 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. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. 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. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. 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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