Principal Applied Scientist

Independently partners with engineering, product, and security teams to translate complex identity and public safety needs into ambitious research plans and production-ready AI solutions. Leads end-to-end applied research across next-generation facial recognition, including face verification and multi-face recognition, as well as defenses against deepfakes, presentation attacks, and other adversarial threats. Explores advanced approaches such as agentic video analysis and multimodal AI to enable broader public safety and security applications and expand Oracle’s portfolio. Surveys the state of the art, builds high-quality datasets, runs rigorous experiments and POCs, and designs, trains, evaluates, and optimizes models for real-world deployment. Writes reliable, well-documented code and collaborates closely to ship, monitor, and improve models in production. Advances Oracle’s scientific leadership through publications, patents, white papers, peer review, and engagement with the broader research community, pushing the boundaries of secure identity and public safety AI.

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US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 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 - IC4

Key Responsibilities

Solution Identification: –Independently collaborates with engineering, product, security, and other cross-functional teams to identify business and product needs, create and implement solutions, promote innovation, and drive model implementations. –Independently performs literature reviews and state-of-the-art analyses in areas such as advanced computer vision, facial biometrics, video understanding, and multimodal AI to understand the problem that needs to be solved. –Creates a science plan to address product and/or business problems in secure identity, public safety, and related application areas. –Serves as a leading contributor in identifying solutions based on the scientific process, including modeling approaches, evaluation techniques, and data collection strategies.

Solution Development – Applied Research: –Develops and pilots research proofs-of-concept (POCs) or research experiments to demonstrate the feasibility of proposed solutions, gather supporting evidence, and secure resources for applied research. –Independently identifies and prepares image, video, and multimodal datasets for use in applied research. Ensures datasets meet quality standards and identifies gaps in coverage, representation, and evaluation. –Contributes to the design of and conducts research on new theories, tools, and methodologies to transfer and apply state-of-the-art technologies, including agentic video analysis and advanced facial recognition, into products and services or make advancements in the field.

Solution Development: –Designs, develops, and optimizes AI artifacts: including model training and fine-tuning, computer vision pipelines, multimodal systems, and computation optimizations. –Designs and reviews the architecture of ML and AI solutions, including data, model, training, inference, and evaluation components, employing best practices for scalable and reliable deployment.

Solution Development – Articulating Research Insights: –Independently identifies meaningful insights from data and metadata sources through analysis and experimentation. –Interprets and communicates insights and findings to cross-level and cross-functional audiences. –Creates patents, white papers, publications, or other technical documentation related to applied research outcomes in biometrics, video intelligence, secure identity, and public safety AI.

Solution Delivery – Coding and Documentation: –Develops efficient, medium-complexity code from scratch and properly maintains and organizes existing codebases. –Implements best practices for versi