Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is forming a new organization focused on product development and strategy for Oracle Health & AI. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will shape the future of AI at Oracle, emphasizing Large Language Models and Generative AI, and play a key role in delivering innovative AI-powered solutions for healthcare and enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers to translate business and product requirements into AI projects
- Collaborate with fellow technical leaders to ensure the successful and timely delivery of models and integration of services
- Coordinate with multinational teams to drive projects from research POC to production
- Develop new healthcare and enterprise services and features leveraging recent advances in generative AI, machine learning and deep learning
- Design and review the architecture of AI solutions, including data, model, training, and evaluation, employing best practices
- Lead and mentor both junior and senior applied scientists
- Develop production code and advocate for the best coding and engineering practices
- Participate in project planning, review, and retrospective sessions
- Identify and mitigate risks in our plans and executions, especially at the intersection of business and engineering
Skills
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing scalable AI models for production
- Deep technical understanding of Machine Learning, Deep Learning architectures like Transformers, training methods, and optimizers
- Practical experience with the latest technologies in LLM and generative AI, such as parameter-efficient fine-tuning, instruction fine-tuning, and advanced prompt engineering techniques like Tree-of-Thoughts
- Hands-on experience with emerging LLM frameworks and plugins, such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, VectorStores and Retrievers, LLM Cache, LLMOps (MLFlow), LMQL, Guidance, etc
- Proven experience in designing data collection/annotation solutions and systematic evaluation necessary for developing and maintaining production systems
- Commitment to staying up-to-date with the field and applying academic advances to solve complex business problems, and bringing them into production
- Strong publication record, including as a lead author or reviewer, in top-tier journals or conferences
- Experienced leading senior scientists and early-career scientists
- PhD Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Linguistics or a related field with a dissertation, thesis or final project centered in Machine Learning and Deep Learning) with 3+ years relevant experience is preferred but not a must; OR
- Masters or Bachelor's in related field with 5+ years relevant experience
- Knowledge of healthcare and experience delivering healthcare AI models are a significant plus
- Familiarity and experience with the latest advancements in computer vision and multimodal modeling is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options
- Volunteer programs
- Flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options
- Encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs
- 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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