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# Principal Machine Learning Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Juneau, AK, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,600.0 - $234,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Communications Protocols, Continuous Integration, Software Design Documents, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Object-Oriented Software Development, Open Source Technology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Build Management, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A91679D64F3F483390485CC28D08B050/job/

## About the Role

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

6-10+ years building and shipping enterprise distributed or cloud-native systems

Experience scaling heterogeneous CPU/GPU training infrastructure for large multimodal frontier models

Strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and cloud architecture best practices

Proficiency in Java, Python, or similar object-oriented languages

Experience building highly available services using service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols

Proven ability to deliver impact in collaborative, fast-paced environments

Strong verbal and written communication skills, including technical design documentation

Hands-on experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies

Experience working in the below areas and algorithms will be ideal but not mandatory:

Generative AI Modeling: Customizing LLM's, build and deploy LLM's at scale for large scale data generation

Algorithms: Transformer models, Attention mechanism, Prompt tooling

## Description

Design and develop AI software in Java, Python, and other languages.

Participate in the entire software lifecycle - development, testing, CI/CD and production operations

Participate in the entire model development cycle - training, fine-tuning, model serving, evaluation/benchmarking and human preference learning.

Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs.

Build cloud service on top of the modern Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) building blocks at OCI

Design and build distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems to facilitate development of GenAI models.

Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables. Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture.

Contribute to publications, blogs and open-source ML performance submissions partnering with product managers

Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and participating in on-call.


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