Principal Platform Software Engineer - Robotics

Job Description

• 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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

This job involves travel on an as-needed basis.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

11 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 year of experience in software development.

Job Skills:

Same skills as prior level plus;

-Data Analysis: Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data to produce actionable business insights.

-Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.

-Automation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.

-Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.

-Quality Assurance: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of quality assurance, including ensuring adherence to standards and implementing quality control measures.

-Scripting Languages: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of scripting languages, including writing and maintaining scripts to improve system efficiency.

-Software Test Plans: Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective software test plans to validate product quality.

-User Experience Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of user experience development, including designing intuitive and effective user interfaces and content.

-Code Review: Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth code reviews for software quality assurance.

-Embedded Systems: Demonstrated ability to develop embedded systems, balancing hardware and software for optimal performance.

-Software Estimation: Demonstrated ability to provide accurate software effort and complexity estimates for project planning and scheduling.

Coding Experience:

6 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).

Database Experience:

4 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

11 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development.

Budget Experience:

1 year of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Cloud Platforms Experience:

3 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

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