Senior scientist

Job Description

At Oracle Analytics, we are building the next generation of enterprise AI products to enable intelligent data analysis at scale. Leveraging our foundational strengths in data management and enterprise software applications, we are advancing our platforms and applications by deeply embedding cutting-edge agentic AI, generative AI, and innovations in machine learning and optimization.We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist (with a PhD preferably) to perform innovation in AI agent evaluation and user experience (UX), and to advance machine learning for structured data at enterprise scale. You will define evaluation frameworks for multi-step, tool-using agents; design user-centric studies and telemetry; and build robust metrics that connect agent behavior to measurable user and business outcomes. You will also develop and productionize ML methods for structured/tabular data-including forecasting, anomaly detection, and causal insights-that power analytic workflows and agent decision-making. You will partner closely with research engineers, product/UX, and platform teams to ship reliable, safe, and delightful agent experiences into production.

Responsibilities

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.

Minimum qualifications

• 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 qualifications

• 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.

Career Level - IC3

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $97,500 to $199,500 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

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC3

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