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OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) AI Infrastructure is at the forefront of building a cutting-edge, ultra-high-performance GPU platforms designed to support AI/ML/HPC workloads. This is your chance to be part of the AI revolution, creating systems that allow customers to scale from tens to thousands of GPUs without compromising performance.
Our team is responsible for designing and developing fundamental architectural changes for GPU delivery, health monitoring, testing, triage automation, and diagnostic services. These are essential for running distributed AI/ML/HPC workloads across thousands of GPUs, leveraging technologies like RoCE and Infiniband.
As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid lead developer, curious problem solver, a distributed systems generalist and/or skilled Linux engineer with Systems triage experience able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems to design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
This role resides within the Compute AI Infrastructure In-Band Engineering team, which owns the critical infrastructure responsible for automated testing of new platform shapes (AMD/Intel/Arm/Nvidia), hardware bring-up, configuration, benchmarking, and debugging. The services operate at the intersection of bare metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks, a unique combination where both distributed systems engineers and engineers with background in Linux and firmware are highly valued. The team interfaces directly with multiple components like OCI APIs and services, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, and GPUs. The team builds high performance, scalable services and tooling that launch, configure, test, and validate server platforms across OCI's massive fleet of Compute and GPU Infrastructure. You will partner closely across other teams in Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development to ensure OCI can launch, scale, and maintain new server platforms with minimal operational overhead and high reliability. You will work directly with cutting edge GPU hardware and see the direct impact of your work on the business.
We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged. If you are interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, want to work on cutting edge GPU infrastructure and the latest Compute systems, have a knack for distributed systems and/or Linux development with Systems experience then this is your team! Oracle is aggressively investing in the Oracle Cloud to provide the broadest, most comprehensive cloud in the industry.
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
• Deep understanding of operating systems, computer networks, and high-performance applications
• 6 plus years' experience delivering and operating large-scale production systems (1000's server instances)
• Proficient in multiple programming languages (java/python/c/c++/goLang/shell scripting)
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
• Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong background in Linux systems
• Familiarity with system-level architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, and state management
• General enterprise storage, networking, or computing experience
• Experience with Server/GPU hardware architecture and system management
• Experience with Infiniband or RoCE networking technologies
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service data planes

Qualifications
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: $135,200 to $306,400 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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 - IC5
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