Senior Director - Agentic AI Development

HP; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

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 parental leave (4–12 weeks)

11 paid holidays

Flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Job summary

HP, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Agentic AI Development to lead the engineering organization responsible for turning AI concepts into scalable, production-ready solutions across devices.

You will oversee roadmaps, quality, releases, and risk mitigation while driving cross-functional coordination. You will shape architectures for agentic workflows, ensure PC and OS integration, and guide teams across hardware platforms, services, and AI execution layers to deliver end-to-end AI

Qualifications

• Typically 15+ years in software, systems, or AI engineering with 7+ years in leadership and managing managers.
• Delivered shipped AI-enabled PCs, devices, or embedded products with reliable release quality.
• Experience with agentic or generative AI applications and evaluation of AI behavior.

Responsibilities

• Translate PO priorities into executable engineering plans and lead squads from prototype to production.
• Own agentic engineering with context-aware workflows, planning, and local/hybrid inference.
• Ensure PC integration with APIs, OS services, hardware capabilities, and device management.
• Establish validation with scenario-based tests and measure latency, memory, power, and security.
• Own release readiness, rollout sequencing, and field issue resolution; coordinate cross-device compatibility.
• Hire and develop engineering leaders and drive overall delivery across sites.

Skills

Leadership & management

Executive communication

AI engineering mindset

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Education

CS / EE / CE degree

Job description

Job Overview

Senior 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

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

Leadership 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.

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.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $200,150 to $320,250 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

• 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)

Compensation & Benefits Statement

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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