Director - Agentic AI Development

HP Inc.; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 183,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Holidays

Flexible paid vacation

Job summary

HP Inc. is seeking a Director of Agentic AI Development to lead the engineering org that transforms AI concepts into scalable, production-ready solutions across HP PCs and edge devices.

You will own roadmap execution, cross-functional coordination, quality, release management, and risk mitigation to ensure seamless delivery of AI experiences. The role calls for deep leadership across sites, strategic thinking, and hands-on execution in agentic AI applications, with a focus on performance,

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software, systems, or AI engineering with 7+ years in leadership handling multiple teams.
• Delivered AI-enabled PCs or embedded products with strong release quality and reliability.
• Practical depth in agentic/generative AI, including tool calling and context handling.
• Experience with OS/device interfaces and diagnosing cross-domain performance issues.
• Experience with automated integration, staged releases, and field telemetry; balance latency, memory, power, and privacy.
• Strong global people and delivery leadership, technical judgment, and executive communication; degree in CS/EE or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Translate priorities into engineering plans and drive squads from prototype to production.
• Build context-aware workflows, planning and execution for bounded actions with human oversight.
• Integrate features with foundation APIs, OS services, hardware capabilities, and device management.
• Establish scenario-based evaluations and automated tests for AI experiences on target hardware.
• Own integration readiness, release evidence, rollout sequencing, and cross-variant compatibility.
• Lead agile execution with a shared backlog and sprint goals across sites.
• Hire and grow engineering leaders, manage staffing, and escalate delivery risks to executives.

Skills

Leadership experience

Executive communication

Delivery leadership

AI engineering depth

OS APIs

Education

BS in CS/EE or related

Tools

OS APIs

Foundation APIs

Device interfaces

Job description

Director - Agentic AI Development

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.

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.

Job Locations will consider: Houston & Austin TX and Taipei City, Taiwan

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.

Establish baselines and agree targets with leadership, Divisions, and partner teams during initial planning.

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 (https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/) )

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.

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Engineering

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

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Relocation -

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