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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Platform Software Engineer - Robotics - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Robotic Automation Software, System Software, Workflow Management Systems, Enterprise Software Applications, Information Technology, Data Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/344960 ## About the Role * BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Life Sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience. * 8+ years of product management experience for highly technical products, platforms, cloud services, automation systems, or enterprise software. * Experience defining product vision, roadmaps, requirements, and success measures for complex customer-facing products. * Experience working closely with technically demanding customers and translating detailed workflows into scalable product capabilities. * Strong technical judgment across cloud platforms, distributed systems, workflow orchestration, data platforms, APIs, or automation systems. * Experience with robotics, lab automation, industrial automation, scientific workflows, AI-enabled systems, or hardware-software products is strongly preferred. * Demonstrated ability to make clear trade-offs among scope, customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and time to market. * Experience defining and evaluating pilot programs, including measurable business and operational outcomes. * Strong written, analytical, customer-engagement, and executive-communication skills. ## Description We are seeking a senior product leader with experience in technical platforms, automation, and customer-facing enterprise products to define the Robotics Automation product direction for OCI. * Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Senior Principal Product Manager for Robotics Automation. You will define the product vision, roadmap, and initial scope for a new platform that helps scientific and enterprise customers automate physical workflows reliably and safely. * This is a senior individual-contributor role for a technically strong product leader. You will work closely with customers, scientists, engineering, applied science, hardware and automation partners, and OCI platform teams to turn real operating workflows into a clear, scalable product direction. * Initially, you will lead discovery and product definition: identify the most valuable customer problems, define the first pilot use cases, establish success measures, and recommend what should be built next. You will also help shape the longer-term platform strategy for integrating robots, instruments, workflow systems, and cloud services. What You'll Do * Define the vision, product strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for Robotics Automation. * Work directly with strategic customers, scientists, lab operators, and automation partners to understand workflows, constraints, and unmet needs. * Identify and prioritize the first pilot use cases; define customer value, desired outcomes, acceptance criteria, and measures of success. * Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements, user journeys, policies, and engineering priorities. * Partner with the Robotics Platform Engineer to evaluate technical options, make scope and sequencing decisions, and balance customer value, safety, reliability, cost, and delivery time. * Define the product model for managing organizations, shared resources, access rules, workload priorities, and operational policies. * Establish success measures for adoption, workflow completion, operator intervention, reliability, resource use, cost, and customer value. * Define the requirements for administrator, monitoring, and troubleshooting experiences in partnership with Shared Experience & Authoring. * Build the case for future investment in Robotics Automation based on pilot results, customer feedback, market opportunity, and technical feasibility. * Drive the product lifecycle from discovery and prototype through pilot, launch, and continuous improvement. * Communicate strategy, trade-offs, progress, risks, and recommendations to executives and cross-functional stakeholders. * Influence across Product, Engineering, Applied Science, Security, Operations, Finance, and customer teams without formal authority. ## Related Videos - [Leverage Cloud Computing Benefits with Serverless Multi-Cloud ML ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/78-leverage-cloud-computing-benefits-with-serverless-multi-cloud-ml) - [Flexibility is Key: Unlocking the Advantages of Versatile Software Solutions for Strategic Innovatio](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1943-flexibility-is-key-unlocking-the-advantages-of-versatile-software-solutions-for-strategic-innovatio) - [It's all about the Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/425-it-s-all-about-the-data) - [Robots are coming into the wild! 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