Director - Agentic AI Development

HP

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 183,000 - 278,000

Full time

8 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Long term/short term disability
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Life insurance
Generous time off including parental 4
11 paid holidays
Flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Job summary

HP is seeking a Director of Agentic AI Development to lead the engineering organization that turns strategic AI concepts into scalable, production-ready features for HP PCs and edge devices.

You will own roadmap execution, cross-functional coordination, and release management while driving risk mitigation and ensuring high-quality, secure AI experiences across applications, services, and hardware platforms. This role requires strong technical leadership and a passion for AI innovation.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in software, systems, or AI engineering with leadership experience.
  • Delivery of shipped AI-enabled PCs, devices, or embedded products with strong integration.
  • Deep practical knowledge of agentic or generative AI applications, including local or hybrid inference.
  • Experience integrating native apps/services with OS and device interfaces and diagnosing cross-boundary issues.
  • Experience with automated integration, hardware validation, staged releases, and telemetry.

Responsibilities

  • Translate strategic priorities into executable engineering plans.
  • Lead squads from prototype to production increments with clear ownership.
  • Ensure release readiness, rollout sequencing, and field issue resolution.
  • Oversee staff development and engineering leadership across sites.

Skills

AI leadership
Shipped AI-enabled PCs
Agentic AI applications
OS and device integration
Automated integration & hardware"

Education

BS in CS/EE or related field
Equivalent relevant experience

Tools

Foundation APIs
OS services
Hardware capability integration

Job description

Description

Our organization is shaping the future of AI at HP by delivering intelligent, agentic experiences that are deeply integrated into HP PCs and edge devices. We are focused on transforming how users interact with technology through innovative AI-powered capabilities that enhance productivity, simplify workflows, and unlock new possibilities across the device ecosystem.

Description

Our organization is shaping the future of AI at HP by delivering intelligent, agentic experiences that are deeply integrated into HP PCs and edge devices. We are focused on transforming how users interact with technology through innovative AI-powered capabilities that enhance productivity, simplify workflows, and unlock new possibilities across the device ecosystem.

Director - Agentic AI Development

This leadership role is responsible for driving the engineering organization that transforms strategic AI concepts into scalable, production-ready solutions. The leader will oversee roadmap execution, cross-functional development coordination, quality and release management, risk mitigation, and issue resolution to ensure seamless delivery of AI experiences across applications, device services, AI execution layers, and supported hardware platforms. Success in this role requires a strong combination of technical leadership, operational excellence, and a passion for bringing next-generation AI innovations to market.

Role purpose

Lead the engineering organization that turns prioritized agentic experiences into integrated, production-ready features on HP PCs and edge devices. Own roadmap execution, development coordination, quality, release management, risk mitigation, and issue escalation. Deliver the intended experience across application behavior, device services, AI execution, and supported hardware configurations.

Our organization advances HP AI through capabilities deeply integrated into HP PCs and edge devices.

Key Responsibilities
  • Feature delivery. Translate PO priorities into executable engineering plans. Lead squads from prototypes to production increments, with clear ownership of implementation, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
  • Agentic engineering. Build context-aware workflows, tool integrations, planning and execution logic, and local or hybrid inference. Design for bounded actions, human oversight, interruption, and recovery.
  • PC integration. Integrate features with Foundation APIs, OS services, hardware capabilities, and device management. Address startup, sleep and resume, offline operation, updates, and failure conditions on target devices.
  • Experience validation. Establish scenario-based agent evaluations and automated tests on representative hardware. Measure task success, latency, memory, battery impact, security behavior, and cross-device continuity.
  • Release accountability. Own integration readiness, release evidence, rollout sequencing, rollback plans, and field issue resolution. Coordinate compatibility across device variants, OS versions, and external components.
  • Agile execution. Build continuously with PO and Foundation around a shared backlog and sprint goal. Surface risks early, drive recovery actions, and use demonstrations and adoption evidence to improve delivery.
  • Organization leadership. Hire and grow engineering managers and technical leaders across sites. Own staffing, development investment, engineering effectiveness, and executive escalation of delivery risks.
Required Qualifications
  • Typically 15 or more years in software, systems, or AI engineering, including at least 7 years of leadership and experience managing managers across multiple engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated delivery of shipped AI-enabled PCs, connected devices, or embedded products, with accountability for device integration, release quality, and post-launch reliability.
  • Practical engineering depth in agentic or generative AI applications, including tool calling, context handling, local or hybrid inference, and systematic evaluation of AI behavior.
  • Experience integrating native applications or services with OS and device interfaces, and diagnosing performance or reliability issues across software and hardware boundaries.
  • Experience with automated integration, hardware-based validation, staged releases, rollback, and field telemetry; ability to balance task quality with latency, memory, power, and privacy.
  • Strong global people and delivery leadership, technical judgment, and executive communication. Degree in computer science, electrical or computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Preferred Experience
  • Experience developing for Windows PCs, multiple processor architectures, or device portfolios with differing CPU, GPU, and NPU capabilities.
  • Background in multimodal agents, cross-device workflows, enterprise endpoint software, or production integration of third-party AI capabilities.
  • Experience working with OEM, ODM, silicon, OS, or ISV partners and using AI-assisted engineering with human review and quality controls.
Success measures
  • Customer experience. Task success and responsiveness meet PO criteria on representative target devices.
  • Quality. Escaped defects, crash and regression rates, recovery time, and device-level validation results.
  • Delivery. Predictable commitments, integrated increment frequency, release readiness, and timely closure of critical risks.
  • Engineering capability. Healthy leadership pipeline, effective squads, and measurable improvement in delivery without quality loss.
Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is $182,750.00 to $278,450.00 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.

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)
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