Principal AI Security Engineer - Endpoint

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 147,050 - 230,850; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Long term disability insurance

Short term disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Sick leave

Job summary

HP, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and security of AI-enabled endpoint security solutions.

This senior technical leadership role focuses on building secure, scalable software while driving innovation in endpoint protection, security automation, and AI-powered security capabilities. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong security knowledge and experience delivering complex products at scale, including leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience delivering complex software products or platforms.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and secure software design.
• Deep Linux development experience, including system services, networking, performance-sensitive applications, and endpoint security solutions.
• Strong programming skills, particularly in C++, with experience in Python, C#, Java, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of endpoint security principles, authentication, authorization, encryption, threat modeling, and secure coding.
• Familiarity with AI security concepts such as prompt injection, adversarial attacks, model protection, and secure AI integration.
• Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, testing, and deployment of complex software products and endpoint security solutions.
• Drive development of AI-enabled security capabilities, including behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, automation, and security copilots.
• Ensure AI models, agents, prompts, data, and inference pipelines are secure, privacy-aware, resilient, and protected from misuse.
• Establish secure development practices, guardrails, monitoring, access controls, and validation processes for AI-powered features.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Security, Privacy, AI/ML, and Engineering teams to deliver secure, high-quality solutions.
• Define and lead AI security testing, including adversarial testing, prompt-injection testing, abuse-case testing, and security validation.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and champion engineering excellence and DevSecOps best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation across endpoint security and AI initiatives.

Skills

C++

Python

C#

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

HP, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and security of AI-enabled endpoint security solutions.

This senior technical leadership role focuses on building secure, scalable software while driving innovation in endpoint protection, security automation, and AI-powered security capabilities. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with strong security knowledge and experience delivering complex products at scale, including leadership