Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Agentic AI Systems

About The Role

We are looking for a curious, resourceful software engineer to rapidly prototype AI agent concepts and explore how emerging technologies can create value across HP's computing ecosystem. As part of the PS Engineering, Integrated Solutions & Ecosystem team, you will join a small incubation team working with open-source tools and early partner technologies. You will build working proofs of concept in approximately three- to four-week cycles, evaluate their value, and transfer promising ideas to production engineering teams.

This is a hands-on, exploratory role for someone who enjoys building independently, testing assumptions, and moving quickly to the next opportunity when a concept does not demonstrate sufficient value.

What You Might Do

• Explore emerging AI agent frameworks, open-source projects, and partner technologies to identify opportunities for experimentation.
• Build working prototypes that connect AI agents with PCs, edge devices, and distributed computing environments.
• Develop experiments involving workload offloading, AI inference, device routing, or shared computing resources.
• Use Python, Linux, APIs, and structured data to integrate components and test workflows.
• Evaluate prototype behavior, resource utilization, technical feasibility, and potential customer value.
• Communicate findings, trade-offs, and recommendations to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Document promising concepts and transfer code, findings, and technical requirements to production engineering teams.
• Apply appropriate security, policy, and isolation controls to experimental environments.

Essential Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build AI agents, working prototypes, or experimental software through professional work, independent projects, or open-source contributions.
• Strong Python programming skills and practical experience developing in Linux environments.
• Working knowledge of JSON, APIs, and integrating software components.
• Familiarity with open-source tools and the ability to evaluate and adapt unfamiliar technologies quickly.
• Some understanding of PC architecture and how software interacts with compute, memory, and connected devices.
• Ability to independently scope experiments, assess results, and explain technical findings and potential value.
• Curiosity, initiative, and comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience. Candidates with approximately 2-4 years of relevant experience are encouraged to apply; demonstrated building ability matters more than years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meaningful GitHub activity, open-source contributions, or a portfolio of independently built projects.
• Experience with agentic frameworks, device-routing agents, PC-based AI workloads, or memory-related projects.
• Familiarity with tools and approaches such as llama.cpp, vLLM, LangChain, or RAG.
• Experience with distributed computing, edge devices, workload orchestration, or network offloading.
• Additional experience with Windows, C++, containerization, or application and network security.

Salary: $137,250 - $227,750

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

Benefits

At Hp, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, 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)