Distinguished Technologist, Private Cloud AI - Applied & Agentic AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 413,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Distinguished Technologist for Private Cloud AI to shape AI strategy and lead hands-on architectural direction. You will define architectures, lead workshops, and drive PCAI product solutions across private and hybrid cloud environments.

The role requires deep expertise in AI, ML, and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on secure, observable, and scalable systems. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with global teams to deliver impactful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive technical leadership and architectural experience.
• 2+ years designing scaled Agentic AI and Generative AI in production.
• 5+ years designing AI/ML solutions on large public clouds.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and hybrid/private cloud patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI architecture workshops with internal teams and customers to shape PCAI’s strategy.
• Define customer ready AI architectures for private and hybrid cloud.
• Evaluate partner technologies and drive architectural decisions for PCAI products.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects across engineering, applied science, and field teams.
• Create and present high‑impact technical content to influence stakeholders.

Skills

AI leadership

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Security governance

Observability

LLMs

AgentOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Kubernetes

LLM platforms

Job description

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

HPE Private Cloud solutions, delivered through HPE GreenLake, offer a way for organizations to gain the agility and pay-per-use flexibility of public cloud services within their own data centers, while maintaining control and security over their sensitive data. These solutions aim to simplify cloud management, accelerate application development, and improve resource utilization, all within a dedicated private cloud infrastructure.

We are seeking a highly skilled Distinguished Technologist – Private Cloud AI development and advancement of the AI Software products.

As a Distinguished Technologist within the Private Cloud AI group, you are a hands‑on senior architect and AI leader who defines and delivers the future of AI for our private cloud offerings – one big idea at a time.

Strategy, Architecture & Design

• Lead AI architecture and technical design workshops with internal teams and customers to shape PCAI’s applied and agentic AI strategy.
• Define customer ready AI architectures for private and hybrid cloud – spanning models, runtimes, knowledge/semantic layers, security, governance, and observability.
• Evaluate and select ISV partner technologies for the AI platform stack, develop TCO and roadmap options, and drive key architectural decisions for PCAI products and customer solutions.
• Design multi‑agent, LLMOps/AgentOps, and AI security/governance blueprints, ensuring performant, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems.

Implementation & Technical Leadership

• With partnership with PCAI Architecture team, set the Architecture direction of AgentOps/LLMOps, AI Governance, AI Security, and AI Observability capabilities in PCAI offerings.
• Build reusable AI components and agents and partner with engineering to take POCs into scalable, production‑grade services.
• Troubleshoot and optimize AI systems at scale and establish best practices for model lifecycle, evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Recommend design optimizations and improvements for performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and trustworthiness.
• Create and present high‑impact technical content (reference architectures, design patterns, whitepapers, conference talks, and internal/external publications) to influence customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects and provide technical leadership across engineering, applied science, and field organizations.

Experience And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field
• At least 15+ years of progressive technical leadership and architectural experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience designing and implementing scaled Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions that are in production/operations.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience designing and implementing agentic AI and Generative AI platforms and frameworks that are used by multiple AI solutions, products, or teams.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing, engineering, and operationalizing large‑scale AI/ML solutions on at least one large public cloud platform, using:
• Cloud‑native AI services and frameworks, open‑source technologies, and third‑party tools (e.g., observability, security, governance, data/feature platforms).
• Minimum of 5 years of expert‑level understanding of key AI technologies from public cloud providers, open source ecosystems, and third‑party vendors.

Technical Depth (AI/ML and GenAI)

Hands‑on Experience With

• Foundation models and large language models (LLMs).
• Building and optimizing RAG pipelines, multi‑agent systems, and tool‑using agents.
• Architecting knowledge graphs and semantic layers to support AI agents and domain‑specific reasoning.
• Implementing AI security, governance, and observability in production environments.
• Modern deep learning architectures (e.g., transformers, sequence models).
• Pre‑training, fine‑tuning, distillation, and alignment of models.

Cloud, Platform, And Architecture Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures (containers, microservices, Kubernetes, service meshes) and hybrid/private cloud patterns.
• Proven track record architecting and deploying mission‑critical, highly distributed, large‑scale platforms or SaaS.
• Experience integrating AI workloads into production‑grade infrastructure, including performance, scalability, reliability, and compliance considerations.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, drive architectural decisions, and align multiple teams around a cohesive technical vision.
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage executives, architects, engineers, and customers on complex technical topics and trade‑offs.
• Comfortable working in a global, distributed, and highly cross‑functional environment, operating across product, engineering, sales, and services organizations.

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job

Engineering

Job Level

TCP_07

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

• – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 179,500 - 358,500 in Colorado // 194,000 - 388,000 in Massachusetts // 194,000 - 412,500 in California // 170,000 - 412,500 in North Carolina & Texas

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is December 7 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

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