Principal Applied Scientist

Skip to main content. sitemap Profile Sign Out View More Jobs Principal Applied Scientist Nashville, TN, United States Be the First to Apply Job Identification 340896 Job Category Product and Research Posting Date 07/23/2026, 03:26 PM Role Individual Contributor Job Type Regular Employee Does this position require a security clearance? No Years 3 to 5+ years Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English Job Description 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. Responsibilities Key ResponsibilitiesSolution 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...