Senior Principal Applied Scientist - AI

Job Description

As a Senior Principal Applied Scientist on OCI’s AI Innovation team, you’ll shaping Oracle’s next generation AI infrastructure. You will bring foresight into concrete requirements for training and serving models at massive scale. Your evidence-backed insights will guide where we invest across the stack so OCI’s AI Infra offerings are ready for what is coming in the future.

This role requires a deep understanding of machine learning techniques, including foundation model evaluation, traditional NLP/CV metrics, human evaluation, confidence estimation, agentive application evaluation, and RAG application evaluation. The successful candidate will have experience in conducting in-depth research, producing production-ready code, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate evaluation capabilities into various products. A strong background in programming languages, such as Python, and experience with machine learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, is also required.

In this role, you will lead deep research and rigorous evaluation of LLMs and related systems, designing benchmarks that capture quality, latency, cost, and reliability in real production settings. Expect to prototype new training and inference methods and run large-scale experiments that reveal scaling behavior and bottlenecks.

A PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Linguistics, or a related field, with a dissertation or thesis centered on machine learning techniques, is preferred, although a Master's or Bachelor's degree with relevant experience will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Research and Development: Conduct in-depth research on foundation model evaluation, including traditional NLP/CV metrics, LLMaaJ techniques, human evaluation, confidence estimation, agentive application evaluation, and RAG application evaluation. Produce production-ready code for handoff of POC applications to counterparts in Engineering.

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate evaluation capabilities into various applications and products.

• Innovation: Identify new opportunities for evaluation and explore emerging technologies.

• Stay Updated: Maintain a deep understanding of industry trends and advancements in evaluation.

Qualifications and Experience:

• PhD Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Linguistics or a related field (with a dissertation, thesis or final project centered in Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Generative AI/Computational Linguistics) and a minimum of 4 years work experience. Candidates without a PhD but with 5+ additional years' experience will be considered.

• Strong publication record, including as a lead author or reviewer, in top-tier journals or conferences.

• Extensive experience in generative AI and model/application evaluation.

• Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and architectures

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Strong leadership and communication abilities

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: $139,400 to $291,800 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

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