Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to develop software for physical robots, turn operational data into useful evidence, and integrate AI models into robotic applications.
The OCI Robotics Cloud team connects robot operations, simulation, datasets, and AI model workflows. In this role, you will build the software that captures what a robot observes and does, runs models on robot or edge computers, and helps engineers reproduce failures and evaluate improvements.
You will independently own defined components from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and support. You will work with robotics, simulation, and research engineers to make robot behavior reliable and measurable. This role requires direct experience developing and debugging software on physical robots.
What you will do
- Develop and maintain robotics software in Python and/or C++, including robot application logic, sensor and actuator interfaces, and model execution components.
- Build tools to collect, synchronize, inspect, replay, and analyze robot operational data, including images, sensor measurements, robot state, commands, trajectories, and task outcomes.
- Preserve timestamps, calibration, coordinate frames, observation and action definitions, software versions, and data provenance so recordings can support reproducible tests and robotics datasets.
- Integrate AI models and robot policies into physical robot workflows. Validate model inputs and outputs, optimize inference latency and resource use, and implement diagnostics and recovery behavior.
- Debug failures across robot software, sensors, controllers, and model runtimes using recorded evidence and supervised tests on hardware.
- Define component tests and task-level metrics, compare software and model versions, and investigate the causes of changes in robot behavior.
- Work with simulation engineers to reproduce physical failures in simulation and validate the observation, action, timing, and controller interfaces used by learned policies.
- Deliver maintainable components with clear designs, automated tests, documentation, code review, and operational diagnostics. Communicate dependencies and technical tradeoffs early.
- Use AI-assisted development and specification-driven workflows while checking generated code and experimental results for correctness.
Required qualifications
- A bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least three years of software development experience, including substantial direct work on robotics software or systems.
- Hands-on experience developing, integrating, and debugging software on physical robots, with clear examples of your own implementation work and measured results.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++ and experience developing, testing, and troubleshooting software on Linux.
- Working knowledge of robotics fundamentals, including coordinate transforms, odometry, kinematics, feedback control, sensor calibration, and timing constraints.
- Experience working with robot sensor, state, and action data, including timestamp alignment, calibration, missing data, and reproducible recording or replay.
- Experience integrating AI/ML models or policies into robotic applications, including input preprocessing, output interpretation, inference, and evaluation using PyTorch or a comparable framework.
- Practical experience optimizing model inference with TensorRT, including measuring latency, resource use, and output correctness on the target hardware.
- Ability to independently deliver a defined software component, investigate failures across its interfaces, and explain design decisions and validation results.
- Familiarity with ROS 2 or vendor robot SDKs, including communication, transforms, and timing diagnostics.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo or Nav2 for reproducing robot behavior and validating software changes.
- Experience with teleoperation demonstrations, rosbag2, MCAP, LeRobot, or robotics dataset curation and versioning.
- Experience with perception, manipulation, localization, navigation, motion control, or deployment of learned robot policies.
- Experience with GPU-equipped robot or edge computers, containers, and automated testing for robotics software.
Why join us
You will help turn real robot operations into better software, more useful datasets, and dependable AI applications. Your work will connect simulation and learning advances to measurable results on physical robots
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $87,800 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- 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 is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to 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
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