Director, Platform Software Engineering (Java)

Salary: $122,500 - 355,400 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software platforms.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading multiple software engineering teams.
• Proven ability to define and deliver large-scale cloud platforms from concept through production.
• Strong technical knowledge of distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and modern software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated success hiring and growing engineering organizations.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Preferred: experience with cloud robotics, IoT, autonomous systems, or edge computing platforms.
• Preferred: familiarity with ROS 2 and modern robotics software architectures.
• Preferred: experience with DDS, MQTT, OPC-UA, VDA5050, or related robotics communication technologies.
• Preferred: experience building developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or service contract frameworks.
• Preferred: experience with AI-assisted software development, developer productivity platforms, or agentic AI systems.
• Preferred: exposure to embodied AI, vision-language models, robot fleet management, digital twins, or teleoperation platforms.
• Preferred: experience working with diverse hardware ecosystems and partner integrations.

• Define the long-term architecture and technical vision for OCI Robotics Cloud.
• Build cloud capabilities for robot registration and identity, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, and software lifecycle management.
• Establish shared APIs, service contracts, SDKs, and edge service frameworks for robots from multiple vendors.
• Lead development of an AI-assisted, specification-driven robot onboarding platform that generates service contracts, edge service specifications, SDKs, implementation guidance, and developer documentation.
• Expand the use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity and platform quality.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing cloud engineering organization.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, customer focus, and continuous innovation.
• Coach engineering managers and senior technical leaders and develop future organizational leaders.
• Guide engineering execution across architecture, planning, prioritization, delivery, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Product Management on the roadmap and customer adoption strategy.
• Collaborate with teams across OCI AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Developer Services, and strategic robotics partners.
• Represent OCI Robotics Cloud in executive reviews, customer engagements, and strategic technology initiatives.

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Cloud
• Hardware
• IoT
• Kubernetes
• MQTT
• Oracle
• ROS
• Robotics
• Security
• microservices
• Support

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We are partnering with Oracle to recruit a Director of OCI Robotics Cloud, a senior role building Oracles strategic cloud platform for intelligent robotics. Our vision is to make robot onboarding as simple as cloud onboarding, enabling robots from any vendor to connect securely through standardized interfaces rather than custom integrations. This greenfield initiative brings together AI, cloud infrastructure, robotics, and edge computing, with executive visibility and broad industry impact. You will help establish a new strategic engineering organization and shape Oracles long-term direction in cloud robotics, AI, and autonomous systems, working alongside teams across OCI AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Services. The U.S. hiring range is $122,500–$355,400 per year, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; retirement and employee stock purchase plans; paid time off and holidays; paid sick and parental leave; adoption assistance; and other financial and voluntary benefits. The role is Career Level M4. Applications are generally accepted for at least three calendar days after posting or while the position remains listed.

last updated 42 week of 2026