Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering - AI Powered Digital Twin Platform
Oracle · Nashville, TN
$169,800–$355,400from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering leadership role responsible for Oracle's Digital Twin platform, spanning distributed systems, data platforms, and generative AI. The position involves setting technical strategy, directing the development of scalable platform services, and building AI agents that operate over twin data and operational systems. It suits an experienced engineering leader with a background in large-scale cloud platforms and hands-on familiarity with agentic AI systems.
Principal level · 12+ years · National · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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This is a senior engineering leadership role (Career Level M4) responsible for owning product engineering, architecture, and a multi-team organization — including recruiting and leading engineering managers. It is classified as a people-management role (11-3021) rather than an IC developer role, though the JD emphasizes remaining technically engaged in architecture reviews and production incidents.
The alt SOC 15-1252 is noted because the posting stresses deep hands-on technical engagement, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly organizational leadership with direct reports and hiring authority.
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly. The compensation range is US-wide.
The role is classified as Principal seniority due to its org-wide, cross-functional scope (owning an entire platform's engineering org, partnering across OCI, product, applied science, and customers) — this goes beyond a typical Senior manager scope.
The '5+ years leading engineering teams and managers' requirement is a role-level gate captured in the overall years minimum (12+ years overall); the management-depth requirement is reflected in the seniority classification.
Familiarity with graph systems, vector search, event streaming, time-series data, and digital twin technologies is listed under the required qualifications section but framed with 'Familiarity with' — treated as preferred accordingly.
LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Semantic Kernel are listed together as interchangeable examples under Preferred Qualifications; OCI Generative AI Agents is listed alongside them but is a distinct Oracle-specific product and is emitted separately.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud architecture, OCI Generative AI Agents.
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