Senior Applied Scientist - Agentic AI

Job Description

At Oracle Analytics, we are building the next generation of enterprise AI products to enable intelligent data analysis at scale. Leveraging our foundational strengths in data management and enterprise software applications, we are advancing our platforms and applications by deeply embedding cutting-edge agentic AI, generative AI, and innovations in machine learning and optimization.We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist (with a PhD preferably) to perform innovation in AI agents for enterprise analytics-focusing on planning, multi-step reasoning, and tool-augmented execution with large language models over unstructured data (documents, logs, emails, multimodal artifacts). You will design agent architectures, memory and planning systems, retrieval and grounding pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that deliver reliable, auditable, and cost-efficient enterprise outcomes. You will partner closely with research engineers and product teams to ship agentic systems to production, rigorously evaluate reasoning quality and safety, and drive measurable customer and business impact.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
Perform end-to-end agentic system development: define agent goals and decomposition strategies; design planners, controllers, and executors; implement tool-use orchestration (APIs, SQL, vector search, code execution) and robust recovery/rollback.
Advance planning and reasoning: hierarchical/task planning, self-reflection and critique, debate/tree-search methods, constraint satisfaction, and chain-of-thought/toolformer-style approaches to improve correctness, faithfulness, and robustness.
Ground LLMs on unstructured data: build retrieval and indexing over documents, semi-structured data
Ensure safety, privacy, and compliance: content safety policies, least-privilege tool access, execution sandboxes, prompt/memory redaction, PII handling, and governance appropriate for regulated enterprise settings; implement interpretable action logs.
Productionize agentic solutions: collaborate with platform teams to ship planning/orchestration services and evaluation harnesses; implement observability, telemetry, canarying, rollback, and lifecycle management for agent workflows.
Stay current with research and translate advances into production differentiators; mentor teammates and contribute to a culture of scientific rigor and impact.

Minimum qualifications
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, or related field with a focus relevant to LLMs, planning/reasoning, NLP, or autonomointeractive systems.
Experience (industry or applied research) building and deploying ML/LLM systems, including agentic workflows, retrieval/grounding, and evaluation at scale.
Demonstrated expertise in agentic methods: multi-step planning, tool-use orchestration, reflection/critique, and structured reasoning (e.g., CoT, programmatic planning).
Strong background in retrieval over unstructured data, RAG architectures, document preprocessing, indexing, and provenance tracking for accuracy, safety, and robustness.
Proficient in Python and modern ML stacks: PyTorch/JAX, Transformers, vector databases/IR libraries, orchestration frameworks; solid software engineering practices and experimentation discipline.
Track record of publications in top venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL) or equivalent demonstrated impact in production systems.

Preferred qualifications
Experience designing data/feedback pipelines for agent evaluation: step-level labeling, trace audits, and active learning for hard cases; familiarity with bias/variance trade-offs.
Knowledge of search/planning and decision-making: tree search, bandits for tool/model selection, off-policy evaluation for policy changes, and statistical testing for online experiments.
Familiarity with LLM efficiency and serving: PEFT/LoRA/QLoRA, quantization, KV cache management, batching, speculative decoding, routing across models/skills, and throughput/latency trade-offs.
Experience integrating safety/guardrails and policy enforcement: sandboxed tool execution, OAuth/secret management, rate-limiting, jailbreak/prompt-injection defenses, and privacy-preserving telemetry aligned with enterprise compliance.
Comfortable collaborating across research, engineering, product, and legal/compliance; excellent communication skills to explain methods and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Practical experience with experiment tracking, model registries, CI/CD for ML, and production observability for agent traces and actions.

Career Level - IC3

Qualifications

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: $97,500 to $199,500 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 - IC3

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