Sr. Principal Applied Scientist- AI at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$122,800–$306,400from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on building production-grade AI agent systems, including semantic and knowledge graph foundations, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation pipelines. Day-to-day work involves designing agentic workflows, developing auto-evaluation algorithms using reinforcement learning and adversarial techniques, and integrating these systems with enterprise-scale products. Best suited to experienced ML practitioners with a strong background in distributed systems and hands-on knowledge of AI agent frameworks.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). 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 (6)
The posting is titled 'IC5' (Individual Contributor Level 5), which at Oracle typically corresponds to a Staff/Principal-level IC, but the actual scope — while senior — does not clearly describe org-wide technical authority, so seniority is assessed as Senior rather than Staff or Principal.
The role is genuinely ambiguous between Data Scientist (15-2051) and Software Developer (15-1252): it requires ML/AI modeling expertise AND production-grade software engineering of AI systems and agents at scale.
A Master's degree in CS, statistics, or ML is listed as a hard requirement; a Ph.D. is explicitly 'preferred', so Masters is the minimum degree gate.
LangChain and CrewAI are listed together as 'a plus' under the requirements section — treated as preferred. They are combined into one skill entry as interchangeable AI agent frameworks.
Vector databases and cloud hyperscaler experience (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI) are framed as 'a plus' or 'highly preferred', so they are marked preferred.
Compensation is eligible for bonus and equity in addition to the stated base salary range.
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