REMOTE -Principal Software Developer- Agentic AI, Healthcare AI at Oracle
Lansing, MI
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Jul 3, 2026
Lansing, MI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and operating production AI systems — including LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable backend services and APIs, establishing evaluation frameworks, and shaping architecture decisions. Suits an experienced engineer with a strong background in both ML systems and distributed software engineering who is comfortable leading technical direction and collaborating across product and science teams.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,050–5,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
The job title carries no level word; 'Career Level - IC4' is Oracle's internal band label, not a standard seniority title — the title states no level accordingly.
The degree requirement lists BS/MS/PhD 'or equivalent practical experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Python and Java are both explicitly required ('Proficiency in Python and Java') and are emitted as separate must-have skills.
Containerized applications and Kubernetes are listed in the required qualifications section; Docker appears only under Preferred Qualifications alongside cloud platforms, so Docker is marked preferred.
Message queues / pub-sub / streaming are required as a capability class; Kafka and Spark appear only under Preferred Qualifications as named examples and are marked preferred.
Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI) appears only under Preferred Qualifications and is marked preferred.
LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Semantic Kernel are listed together as interchangeable orchestration frameworks under Preferred Qualifications; LangGraph is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Elasticsearch and OpenSearch are listed as interchangeable retrieval technologies under Preferred Qualifications.
Fine-tuning (LoRA, distillation, preference optimization) and A/B testing / evaluation systems appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The compensation range ($114,600–$234,600/year) is wide by design; Oracle's posting notes this reflects variations in experience, location, and business line.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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