Software Developer - Architect

Oracle
Springfield, IL

Job Description

Position Summary

The Architect, AI/ML will serve as a hands-on technical leader responsible for modernizing our Approvals platform - replacing legacy BPM systems with intelligent, agentic workflows powered by large language models. This individual will directly own the design and development of prompting infrastructure, orchestration layers, multi-agent systems, and fine-tuning pipelines, while enabling the broader engineering organization to adopt and extend these capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the architectural transformation from rule-based BPM to agentic, LLM-powered approval workflows - defining the long-term vision and driving hands-on execution

  • Design, build, and own the prompting layer and orchestration infrastructure on top of foundation models, including RAG pipelines, context injection, multi-agent coordination, and human-in-the-loop escalation patterns

  • Lead hands-on fine-tuning efforts, making principled trade-offs between adaptation approaches (LoRA, PEFT, instruction tuning, RLHF). You keep up with the latest techniques for fine tuning

  • Establish LLMOps practices for production reliability, observability, and drift detection

  • Diagnose and resolve production issues in LLM-powered systems; develop runbooks and raise engineering team capability through direct collaboration and pairing

  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to define and sequence the agentic BPM roadmap

Required Qualifications

  • 4-5+ years of hands-on machine learning experience in production environments; direct coding expectations - this is not a staff or advisory role

  • Demonstrated experience building prompting layers and orchestration systems on top of foundation models

  • Proven track record of shipping LLM-based systems to production

  • Deep expertise in LLM fine-tuning methodologies and agentic system design

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience modernizing or replacing BPM systems with AI-driven alternatives

  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks

  • Background in enterprise workflow automation or approvals domains

  • Familiarity with cloud-native ML infrastructure

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Suggest and justify product directions within approved directions. Define responsibilities for new projects and specifies, designs and develops software according to those specifications. Provide consultative software guidance and strategic direction associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.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: $136,600 to $338,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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 - IC6

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Posted 2026-05-18

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