Senior Software Engineer - Data Systems and AI

Senior Data Systems Software Engineer

The Applied AI organization mission is to design and AI solutions for data that are simple for all personas, including users, analysts, DBAs and developers and useful for all apps and all workloads. 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 AI 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 will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people.

The candidate will also work on the Database Knowledge Assistant (DBKnw). The assistant accurately answers questions about the Oracle Database and related products and services. It improves productivity for developers, support, customers, and partners. DBKnw consolidates the content from various data silos, divides this content into chunks, stores embeddings for these chunks in the Oracle Database, and uses the AI Vector Search capabilities in Oracle AI Database 26ai to find similar content chunks when generating answers using the OCI Generative AI Service.

Job Description:

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to

functional area with 4+ years of software engineering or related experience.

As a member of this team, you will implement machine learning based solutions and algorithms and apply them to improve various software engineering process at Oracle.

Requirements:

- BS/MS/PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, applied math or related field

- Proficiency with machine learning algorithms and concepts

- Proficiency with coding in Python

- Proficiency with Oracle database schema management and operation

- Familiarity with code development in PL/SQL, C, C++

- 4+ years of work experience

- 3+ years of experience in developing or using deep learning frameworks e.g. TensorFlow, Keras, etc.

- Strong programming skills with proven experience designing, prototyping, and delivering machine learning solutions into production

- Designed and supported RAG based production class application

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player

- Strong analytical skills and an independent thinker

- Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) techniques and models ideally with transformer architectures

- Previous experience with crawling and parsing documents in HTMl, pdf, other format

- Familiarity with embeddings and vector search

- Familiarity with working with large language models

- Familiarity with chunking strategies

- Familiarity with prompting strategies

- Familiarity with Siamese Networks and Triplet Loss

- Familiarity with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline and optimization strategies

- Familiarity with various LLM reference-based and reference-free evaluation techniques

- Familiar with various OCI services

- Maintain and optimize ML application in production environment to handle high volume requests

Responsibilities:

- Own the development of machine learning algorithms

- Design and implement RAG based and Agentic applications

- Design scalable and highly available machine learning and RAG based and Agentic applications

- Improve the accuracy of existing algorithms to an acceptable level

- Broaden existing algorithms to work well with various Oracle products

- Improve the run-time of existing algorithms

- Develop and maintain necessary infrastructure to run and maintain the ML based applications

- Develop a feedback system to improve the accuracy of the recommendation system or AI application   

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development

OR

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 4 years of experience in software development

OR

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 4 years of experience in software development

OR

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 2 year of experience in software development

OR

Master'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 2 year of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.

Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level plus;
Distributed Systems Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
Prototyping Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
Computer Science Programming Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
Software Engineering Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
Web Development Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
Innovation Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
Information Vulnerabilities Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
Operating Systems Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.
API Development Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.
API Integration Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.
Applied Algorithm Engineering Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
Source Control Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.

Coding Experience:
4 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).

Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development

OR

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 4 years of experience in software development

OR

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 4 years of experience in software development

OR

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 2 years of experience in software development

OR

Master'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 2 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics. 
Cloud Platforms Experience:
2 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

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Experience Level

Senior Level