Agentic AI Systems Evaluation Engineer

Hp Iq; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 131,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Job summary

HP is seeking a Systems Evaluation Engineer to assess AI software performance and customer impact. You will design evaluation methodologies, benchmark AI workloads, and interpret results to guide product decisions.

Strong skills in Python/C++, ONNX/GGUF, and system-level performance are essential. You'll collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams to ensure scalable, measurable outcomes and provide actionable feedback.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems evaluation, performance engineering or related field.
• Strong understanding of AI inference workloads and model execution.
• Experience designing benchmarking methodologies and metrics.
• Familiarity with ONNX and GGUF and related execution approaches.
• Knowledge of system-level performance, memory, concurrency, OS interactions.
• Proficient in Python or C++ with automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate user stories and customer experiences into measurable success criteria.
• Design repeatable benchmarking frameworks for AI workloads.
• Compare model formats, runners, and hardware configurations with controlled measurements.
• Analyze inference behavior, latency, memory, and token generation metrics.
• Assess system responsiveness under single and concurrent AI workloads.
• Provide actionable feedback linking findings to customer impact.
• Develop automation and reporting tools for reproducible evaluations.
• Present performance trends and trade-offs in technical reviews.

Skills

AI systems

Systems evaluation

Benchmarking

Python

C++

Data analysis

Project communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, software engineering, or related field

Tools

ONNX

GGUF

Model runners

Python tooling

C++

Job description

At HP, you'll have a chance to create tools, technology, and solutions that reshape the way the world works in the future. If you're looking to join a company that allows you to connect with a network of professionals eager to support you in doing your best work, we want to talk to you. Our legendary culture guides every employee toward success-fostering collaboration and driving innovation.

Operating in over 170 countries, HP is always creating new services, products, and capabilities giving you more opportunities to advance your career. Here, innovation is the key to professional development and career mobility.

When you join HP, you're joining a company that believes every voice matters and that we all deserve a seat at the table. From the boardroom to factory floor, we create a culture where everyone is respected and where people can be themselves. You will be part of a global laboratory where different perspectives and experiences will help you solve problems in new ways. This is where you can build a long and wide-ranging career.

About The Role

We are looking for a Systems Evaluation Engineer to continuously assess whether our AI software delivers the customer experiences and system performance it is designed to achieve. You will connect user stories and product goals to measurable outcomes, develop evaluation methodologies, and interpret results throughout development.

Working closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams, you will evaluate AI workloads, compare model and runtime implementations, and explain how technical performance affects the customer experience. Your findings will help teams understand trade-offs, identify gaps, and make better design and implementation decisions.

This role requires deep technical understanding of AI inference and PC systems, combined with strong analytical judgment. You will own the evaluation approach and interpretation of evidence, providing continuous feedback that shapes the developing solution.

What You Might Do

• Translate user stories and intended customer experiences into measurable success criteria, evaluation scenarios, and performance targets.
• Design repeatable benchmarking frameworks that assess AI workload effectiveness and system behavior throughout development.
• Compare model formats, model runners, runtime implementations, and hardware configurations using representative workloads and controlled measurements.
• Analyze inference behavior, including prompt processing, time to first token, token generation rate, latency, and memory consumption.
• Evaluate system responsiveness and resource utilization under individual and concurrent AI workloads, including effects on other PC activities.
• Interpret benchmark and telemetry data to distinguish meaningful improvements, regressions, measurement variability, and gaps in evaluation coverage.
• Provide actionable feedback to architects and engineers, connecting technical findings to customer impact and recommending further investigation.
• Build automation and reporting tools that make evaluations reproducible and results accessible to development teams.
• Communicate performance trends, trade-offs, and progress against customer outcomes through technical reviews and concise executive reports.

Essential Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in systems evaluation, performance engineering, software engineering, advanced validation, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of AI systems and inference workloads, including model execution, prompt processing, and runtime behavior.
• Experience designing benchmarking methodologies, selecting meaningful metrics, and interpreting complex system performance data.
• Familiarity with model formats such as ONNX and GGUF, model runners, and the implications of different execution approaches.
• Understanding of system-level performance, including compute utilization, memory constraints, concurrency, and interactions between AI workloads and the operating system.
• Strong programming and automation skills in Python, C++, or another relevant language, with experience building evaluation tools or data analysis workflows.
• Ability to translate technical measurements into customer impact and communicate actionable findings across product, architecture, and engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, software engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience evaluating AI workloads on Windows and Linux PCs or other edge devices.
• Knowledge of attention mechanisms, KV caching, quantization, and other inference optimization concepts and their implications for evaluation.
• Experience analyzing device telemetry and combining benchmark results with observations from representative customer scenarios.
• Familiarity with CPU, GPU, and NPU execution and the challenges of comparing performance across heterogeneous hardware.
• Experience with statistical analysis, experimental design, and methods for separating real performance changes from measurement noise.
• Background in advanced systems validation with substantial depth in AI inference, performance analysis, and benchmarking automation.

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview )

When you join HP, you're investing in your future and so are we. You have priorities beyond work. That's why we offer flexibility, support, and benefits that help you shape the life you want.

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