Lead Agentic AI Offensive Security Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Spring (TX); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a Lead Agentic AI Offensive Security Engineer to design and support AI-enabled security platforms. You will architect scalable agentic systems, lead cross-functional architecture decisions, and mentor engineers in a hybrid work setting.

You will implement model-agnostic interfaces, manage memory and tool calls, and ensure strong security, reliability, and observability for production-grade AI workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, distributed-systems, or AI engineering.
• Proven experience architecting and operating production LLM-powered or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience with agent orchestration, planning, tool calling, memory, and long-running workflows.
• Experience with foundation-model APIs and open-weight or self-hosted models, function calling.
• Security-focused, with production reliability and AI safety expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own the reference architecture and engineering standards for production agentic AI systems.
• Design reusable agent execution harnesses separating AI reasoning from execution.
• Lead multi-agent workflows, state management, memory, tool calling, and long-running processes.
• Define model-agnostic interfaces for various model sources and workloads.
• Architect retrieval, context, and memory services using RAG, hybrid search, and vector databases.
• Establish MCP servers, APIs, tool registries, and enterprise integrations.
• Define evaluation, observability, reliability, and security practices, including least privilege and sandboxing.

Skills

System Design & Architecture

Agentic Systems & Harness Engineering

Model‑Agnostic AI & Context Engine

Platform Engineering & Production Reli

Evaluation, Security & AI Safety

Distributed Systems & APIs

Tools

LangGraph

Claude Agent SDK

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

Job description

Lead Agentic AI Offensive Security Engineer

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’s Cybersecurity team is seeking a Lead Agentic AI Engineer to design, enhance and support the technical direction of our AI-Enabled Offensive security organization. Using your expertise in offensive security, you will architect and deliver secure, reliable, production‑grade agentic AI platforms. These platforms will accelerate and scale cybersecurity triage, investigation, detection engineering, response, and other complex workflows.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the reference architecture and engineering standards for production agentic AI systems.
• Design reusable agent execution harnesses that separate AI reasoning and planning from deterministic execution.
• Lead multi‑agent workflows, state management, memory, tool calling, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, and long‑running processes.
• Define model‑agnostic interfaces supporting commercial, cloud‑hosted, and open‑weight models, including routing, fallback, and workload‑based selection.
• Architect retrieval, context, and memory services using technologies such as RAG, hybrid search, and vector databases.
• Establish strategies for MCP servers, A2A protocols, APIs, tool registries, and enterprise integrations.
• Define evaluation, observability, reliability, and security practices, including least privilege, sandboxing, authorization, secrets management, guardrails, auditability, and defenses against prompt injection, tool abuse, and data leakage.
• Lead cross‑functional architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and communicate technical tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Experience and Skills

Candidates should demonstrate deep expertise in at least three areas, with Agentic Systems & Harness Engineering required:

• System Design & Architecture
• Agentic Systems & Harness Engineering
• Model‑Agnostic AI & Context Engineering
• Platform Engineering & Production Reliability
• Evaluation, Security & AI Safety
• Experience with cybersecurity automation, security operations, offensive security, adversary simulation, reusable agent platforms, open‑weight inference, or frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST AI RMF is preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in software, platform, distributed‑systems, or AI engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership on production systems.
• Proven experience architecting and operating production LLM‑powered or agentic systems across their full lifecycle.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures, workflow and state management, scalability, concurrency, and fault tolerance.
• Strong hands‑on experience with agent orchestration, planning, tool calling, delegation, memory, and long‑running workflows using LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or equivalent.
• Experience with foundation‑model APIs and open‑weight or self‑hosted models, structured generation, and function calling.
• Expert Python and backend engineering skills, including REST/gRPC, messaging, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
• Practical experience with agent evaluation, trajectory and regression testing, AI security, and production reliability.

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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.

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Job

Information Technology Job Level: TCP_07

Salary

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 183,000 - 365,000 in Colorado // 197,000 - 395,000 in Massachusetts // 197,000 - 420,000 in California // 173,000 - 420,000 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 February 1 2027; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you need accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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