Oracle · 1 week ago
Senior Applied Scientist - Agentic AI
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$98K/yr - $200K/yrOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to innovate in AI agent evaluation and user experience. This role involves defining evaluation frameworks, designing user-centric studies, and developing ML methods for structured data at enterprise scale.
Data GovernanceData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Perform end-to-end agent evaluation programs: establish task taxonomies, gold standards, and reproducible scenarios for tool-using and planning agents across BI, SQL, and data preparation workflows; design rubric-based and pairwise evaluations to measure correctness, grounding, and traceability
Stay current with research and translate advances into production differentiators; mentor teammates and contribute to a culture of scientific rigor and impact
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, or related field with focus relevant to AI agents, evaluation/UX, or structured data ML
Experience (industry or applied research) building and evaluating ML systems, including agentic workflows, UX research for AI products, and structured/tabular ML in production
Demonstrated expertise in human/AI evaluation: rubric and study design, telemetry and instrumentation, A/B testing, and statistical analysis; ability to connect evaluation metrics to product outcomes
Strong background in structured data ML: feature engineering, time series forecasting, anomaly detection, causal inference, and robustness for enterprise datasets; proficiency with SQL and data warehousing concepts
Proficient in Python and modern ML stacks (e.g., PyTorch/JAX) and libraries for evaluation and experimentation; solid software engineering practices, experiment tracking, and reproducibility discipline
Track record of publications in top venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, NAACL, ICLR, ACL, CHI) or equivalent evidence of impact
Preferred
Experience building scalable evaluation platforms for tool-using agents
Expertise in UX research methods for AI
Knowledge of planning and tool-use policies
Familiarity with efficiency and serving: batching, KV cache management, quantization/PEFT for cost/latency trade-offs; observability and alerting for agent behavior drifts
Experience integrating safety/guardrails, policy enforcement, and privacy-preserving telemetry into production workflows aligned with enterprise compliance
Comfortable collaborating across research, engineering, product, and legal/compliance; excellent communication skills to explain methods and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders
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 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
Company
Oracle
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Founded in 1977
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.75BKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-09-24Post Ipo Debt· $18B
2025-02-03Post Ipo Debt· $7.75B
1986-03-12IPO
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