Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

The OCI Robotics Cloud team is creating a secure, scalable platform for connecting, managing, and operating heterogeneous robot fleets across vendors and industries. Our platform spans robot identity and registration, fleet and mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, software lifecycle management, and AI-powered robotic services.

A core challenge we are tackling is robot onboarding at scale. Today, integrating a new robot platform often requires significant custom engineering. We are building an AI-assisted, spec-driven onboarding architecture where robot capabilities and interfaces can be translated into service contracts, edge specifications, SDKs, adapters, and implementation guidance—turning robot integration into a repeatable software engineering workflow.

As a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will help define the technical architecture and long-term direction of this platform. You will tackle problems that span cloud distributed systems, edge computing, robotics interoperability, security, and AI-assisted software engineering.

This is a highly technical individual-contributor role with broad architectural influence across OCI.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $306,400 per annum. 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:
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.

Career Level - IC5

What You’ll Do

• Define the architecture and technical direction for OCI’s cloud robotics platform, including robot onboarding, identity, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, and software lifecycle services.
• Establish platform abstractions, service boundaries, APIs, and service contracts that support heterogeneous robots and evolving robotics ecosystems.
• Lead the architecture of an AI-assisted, spec-driven robot integration system capable of generating and evolving integration specifications, SDKs, adapters, and developer guidance.
• Define reusable edge and cloud patterns that separate vendor-specific robot implementations from stable cloud-facing interfaces.
• Solve complex distributed-systems problems involving scale, reliability, consistency, security, observability, and cloud-to-edge connectivity.
• Drive architectural decisions across multiple services and engineering teams and guide systems from early design through production operation.
• Identify long-term technical risks and opportunities and influence platform investments across robotics, AI, security, and cloud infrastructure.
• Establish engineering standards and design principles for highly reliable, secure, and maintainable production systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through architecture reviews, design reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
• Partner with OCI AI, Security, Developer Services, and Infrastructure teams to shape reusable capabilities for intelligent and autonomous systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex systems spanning multiple services, teams, or organizational boundaries.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Experience designing highly available, secure, observable, and scalable production services.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to navigate ambiguous, open-ended engineering problems.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without relying on direct organizational authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing developer platforms, SDKs, extensibility frameworks, service contracts, or plugin/adapter architectures.
• Experience with robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, industrial automation, or cloud-to-edge platforms.
• Familiarity with ROS 2, DDS, MQTT, OPC-UA, VDA5050, or related robotics and industrial protocols.
• Experience with workload identity, zero-trust architectures, secure device onboarding, OTA deployment, or edge security.
• Understanding of robot fleet management, mission execution, navigation, localization, perception, teleoperation, or digital twins.
• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Webots, or other simulation environments.
• Experience applying LLMs, agentic systems, code generation, or AI-assisted engineering techniques to developer workflows.
• Familiarity with embodied AI, vision-language models, or emerging AI architectures for robotics.

Why This Role Is Different

Most robotics engineering focuses on making an individual robot smarter.

We are solving a different problem: how the cloud can make thousands of heterogeneous robots easier to integrate, operate, secure, and evolve.

Our goal is to create a cloud operating model for robotics—where bringing a new robot online becomes closer to onboarding a cloud resource than launching a bespoke systems-integration project.

As a Lead Principal Engineer, you will have the opportunity to define foundational architecture for that platform and help shape Oracle’s long-term technical direction in cloud robotics.