Director, Platform Software Engineering

About the Role

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we are building the next generation of cloud services for autonomous and intelligent robotics. OCI Robotics Cloud is Oracle's strategic cloud platform for robotics. Our mission is to enable enterprises to seamlessly onboard, manage, monitor, and operate heterogeneous robot fleets through secure, scalable, AI-powered cloud services. Unlike traditional robotics platforms that focus on individual robots, OCI Robotics Cloud is building the cloud operating system for robotics—providing common services for robot identity, registration, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, software lifecycle management, and AI-powered automation.

A key part of our vision is an AI-driven, spec-based robot onboarding platform that enables robots from any vendor to integrate rapidly through standardized cloud interfaces, reusable edge services, and AI-generated service contracts. As Director of OCI Robotics Cloud, you will build both the platform and the organization that will define Oracle's long-term robotics strategy. This is a rare opportunity to build a greenfield cloud platform with executive visibility and industry-wide impact at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, robotics, and edge computing.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term architecture and technical vision for OCI Robotics Cloud.
• Build the cloud platform enabling robot registration, identity, fleet management, mission orchestration, telemetry, digital twins, and software lifecycle management.
• Establish common APIs, service contracts, SDKs, and edge service frameworks that support robots from multiple vendors.
• Lead the development of an AI-assisted, spec-driven robot onboarding platform where AI generates service contracts, edge service specifications, SDKs, implementation guidance, and developer documentation.
• Drive adoption of AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity and platform quality.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a world-class cloud engineering organization.
• Build a culture centered on engineering excellence, ownership, customer obsession, and continuous innovation.
• Coach engineering managers and senior technical leaders while developing future organizational leadership.
• Drive engineering execution across architecture, planning, prioritization, delivery, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define roadmap and customer adoption strategy.
• Collaborate 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.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
• 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 experience defining and delivering large-scale cloud platforms from concept to production.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems, Kubernetes, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and modern software engineering practices.
• Demonstrated success hiring and scaling engineering organizations.
• Outstanding communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud robotics, IoT, autonomous systems, or edge computing platforms.
• Familiarity with ROS 2 and modern robotics software architectures.
• Experience with DDS, MQTT, OPC-UA, VDA5050, or related robotics communication technologies.
• Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or service contract frameworks.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development, developer productivity platforms, or agentic AI systems.
• Exposure to embodied AI, vision-language models, robot fleet management, digital twins, or teleoperation platforms.
• Experience working with heterogeneous hardware ecosystems and partner integrations.

Vision

Our vision is to make robot onboarding as simple as cloud onboarding. We believe AI will fundamentally transform how robots are integrated into enterprise systems by automatically generating service contracts, edge services, SDKs, APIs, implementation guidance, and operational best practices. OCI Robotics Cloud is building the cloud platform that allows any robot—from any vendor—to securely connect to Oracle Cloud through standardized interfaces rather than custom integrations. As Director of OCI Robotics Cloud, you will build the engineering organization that turns this vision into reality.

Pay

Hiring range in USD from: $122,500 - $355,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation for salaried employees (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; accrual prorated for part-time employees working 20-34 hours per week)
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire, refreshes each calendar year, with a maximum cap of 112 hours
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance