AI Engineer, Orchestration

hp; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

HP is looking for an AI Engineer to join their innovation lab focused on developing AI technologies. The role involves building the foundations of CosmOS, HP's intelligent operating system, and working on orchestration layers for large language models. The ideal candidate is expected to have solid experience in software engineering or AI, particularly in Python, and will collaborate with senior engineers to contribute to HP's next-gen AI platform.

Benefits

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible spending account

Generous parental leave

Paid holidays

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in software engineering or AI development.
• Strong Python skills and some backend development experience.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and agentic architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build components for agent orchestration pipelines.
• Integrate external LLM APIs with backend systems.
• Design and run experiments for LLM-based agents.

Skills

Python

Understanding of LLM APIs

Curiosity and adaptability

Model development workflows

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or related field

Tools

LangChain

OpenAI function calling

Job description

AI Engineer, Orchestration

Description -

Who We Are

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

AboutTheRole

As an AI Engineer on the Agentic Orchestration team, you’ll help build the foundations of CosmOS—HP’s intelligent operating system for personal computing. You’ll contribute to the orchestration layer that empowers LLM-based agents to reason, plan, and act on behalf of users. Your work will involve integrating LLMs into real-world systems, prototyping multi-agent behavior, and building memory and toolchain infrastructure for adaptive experiences.

This is a unique opportunity for someone early in their career who wants to operate at the intersection of AI research and system design. You’ll work closely with senior engineers, learn fast, and make meaningful contributions to HP’s next-generation AI platform.

What You Might Do

• Build components for agent orchestration pipelines, including task routing, memory graphs, and action planning
• Integrate external LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) with backend systems
• Develop prompt strategies and planning routines that improve agent reliability and user experience
• Contribute to prototypes using modern agentic frameworks (LangChain, ReAct, AutoGPT)
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, modeling, and UX teams to ship intelligent features to HP’s devices
• Design and run experiments to fine-tune and evaluate LLM-based agents on real-world tasks, iterating to improve performance and reliability
• Contribute to model curation, including dataset generation, labeling strategies, and quality checks that support personalized and contextual agent behavior
• Apply model optimization techniques such as pruning and quantization to improve on-device performance and reduce latency

Essential Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering or AI-related development
• Proficiency in Python, with exposure to backend system development
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field
• Understanding of prompt engineering, LLM APIs, or agentic architectures
• Curiosity and adaptability to experiment with new tools and frameworks in an evolving field
• Experience in model development workflows—including data curation, fine-tuning, evaluation, and iteration to improve model quality. Ability to independently run experiments to optimize models for performance and utility.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with LangChain, OpenAI function calling, or similar frameworks
• Exposure to planning systems, vector databases, or graph-based memory structures
• Experience deploying models or AI applications in production
• Interest in building systems that personalize and persist user context across sessions and devices
• Contributions to open-source LLM or orchestration projects
• Hands-on knowledge of model compression and efficiency techniques, including model pruning and quantization

The pay range for this role is$104,800to$158,250USD 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.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental 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)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Why HP IQ?

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab, building the intelligence to empower humanity—reimagining how we work, create, and connect to shape the future of work.

• Innovative Work
  Help shape the future of intelligent computing and workplace transformation.
• Autonomy and Agility
  Work with the speed and focus of a startup, backed by HP’s scale.
• Meaningful Impact
  Build AI-powered solutions that help people and organisations thrive.
• Flexible Work Environment
  Freedom and flexibility to do your best work.
• Forward-Thinking Culture
  We learn fast, stay future-focused, and imagine what comes next—together.

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