Senior/Principal Software Developer- LLM Experience

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment.

In this highly strategic role, you will drive the design, development, and integration of state-of-the-art AI solutions into healthcare products as an applied science leader. You will collaborate with stakeholders across product, engineering to shape the Healthcare AI roadmap and deliver value to customers and partners.

As Software Developer, you will drive the scientific vision for Healthcare AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize LLM-powered agents for clinical and operational workflows (summarization, prior auth, patient messaging, coding).
• Select and version foundation models and prompts to meet privacy, cost, latency, and safety targets.
• Add guardrails, uncertainty handling, human-in-the-loop, and evidence-grounded citations.
• Adapt LLMs with healthcare data via prompt engineering, instruction tuning, and preference optimization.
• Evaluate methods using health-related datasets to ensure outputs are accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.
• Implement RAG, structured outputs, and function/tool calling for EHR and partner integrations.
• Maintain evaluation harnesses and datasets; run error analysis and active learning to reduce bias and close gaps.
• Productionize services with CI/CD, containerization, autoscaling, vector stores, and cost controls.
• Instrument traces, metrics, and logs across prompts, tools, retrieval, and outputs; enforce SLAs with canary/blue-green rollouts and safe rollback.

Qualifications

• Have an MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years production experience with LLM agents
• Proven record improving agent reliability via reward modeling, policy learning, constitutional methods, tool-use strategies, and safety
• Publications, open-source contributions, or patents in LLMs, IR, or clinical NLP.
• Productionize services with CI/CD, containerization, autoscaling, vector stores, and cost controls.
• Instrument traces, metrics, and logs across prompts, tools, retrieval, and outputs; enforce SLAs with canary/blue-green rollouts and safe rollback.
• Productionize services with CI/CD, containerization, autoscaling, vector stores, and cost controls.
• Instrument traces, metrics, and logs across prompts, tools, retrieval, and outputs; enforce SLAs with canary/blue-green rollouts and safe rollback.

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

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