Software Developer 4

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning Engineer

Redwood City, CA - Must work out of the Redwood City office

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. The assistant accurately answers questions about the Oracle Database and related products and services. It improves productivity for developers, support, customers, and partners. DBSA 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 5 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.

Responsibilities:

- Own the development of machine learning algorithms

- Design and implement RAG based applications

- Design scalable and highly available machine learning and RAG based 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

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++

- 6+ years of work experience

- 3+ years of experience in developing or using deep learning frameworks . 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

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities:

- Own the development of machine learning algorithms

- Design and implement RAG based applications

- Design scalable and highly available machine learning and RAG based 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

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.

Career Level - IC4