Senior Director Agentic AI Development

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 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.

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 $200150 to $320250 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 )

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.

Job -

Engineering

Schedule -

Full time

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No shift premium (United States of America)

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Relocation -

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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Required Experience:

Exec