AI Engineer, PC Automation
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
Description -
This role focuses on building fast secure agentic and deeply integrated local AI systems on Windows PCs spanning language voice vision generative and systemlevel capabilities. The engineer will design implement and scale ondevice AI and automation systems that operate directly on real hardware enabling differentiated PC experiences across multiple software surfaces and real edge devices.
The role blends applied AI engineering Windows systems development and largescale device automation with strong ownership across experimentation evaluation and production deployment.
*This role requires 4 days per week in the office to support handson development lab operations and close crossteam collaboration*
Responsibilities:
OnDevice AI & Windows Systems Engineering
Design and build ondevice AI systems on Windows using C# and native Windows APIs.
Develop systemlevel and agentic automation that can observe reason and take actions across the Windows OS and applications.
Integrate AI capabilities directly into PC workflows services and longrunning system processes not cloud-only pipelines.
Optimize solutions for latency reliability security and hardware constraints (CPU/GPU/NPU memory power).
PC Automation & Device Management
Build automation frameworks to configure control evaluate and manage large fleets of Windows PCs.
Automate complex multi-step PC workflows (installation configuration validation recovery).
Operate comfortably in environments that require hands-on interaction with real devices not emulators alone.
Partner closely with IT firmware OS and platform teams on hardwaresoftware integration issues.
Experimentation Evaluation & Reliability
Create and run rigorous realworld automated performance validation on live hardware.
Define evaluation metrics for accuracy robustness latency and regression detection.
Design experimentation pipelines that scale across physical labs of devices.
Leverage and help evolve the teams automation lab infrastructure for continuous validation.
Technical Leadership & Incubation
Lead complex ambiguous projects with high autonomy from incubation to production.
Drive disciplined practical incubation with a strong bias toward production impact across multiple surfaces.
Mentor engineers in ondevice AI Windows systems engineering and automation best practices.
Document architectures experiments and design decisions to raise the organizations technical bar.
Education & Experience Recommended
7-10 year of experiencein software engineering systems engineering or applied AI.
Bachelors degree in engineering computer science information technology or a related field.
Required Technical Skills
- C# for production systems development
- Deep Windows expertise (OS internals services processes APIs tooling)
- Ondevice AI systems (local inference system integration hardware-awareness)
- Agentic and tooldriven automation systems for orchestrating multi-step PC workflows
- Systemlevel debugging and performance analysis
- Automation testing and evaluation frameworks operating on real hardware
- Strong understanding of secure and reliable system design
Highly Valued Experience
- Managing and automating fleets of physical Windows PCs
- Systemlevel AI or automation running continuously on enduser devices
- Evaluation labs hardware farms or largescale automation environments
- Voice vision or multimodal AI systems operating locally
- Shipping deeply integrated AI features used at scale
How We Work
- Build models agentic systems and real hardware experiments for software product improvement
- Operate both bottomup incubation and topdown AI innovation
- Choose missions that drive future success of HPs PC business
- Move fast but with rigorous realworld validation
Impact & Scope
- Owns critical ondevice AI and automation systems that directly shape PC experiences
- Influences architecture tooling and evaluation standards across teams
- Leads initiatives that span product platform hardware and infrastructure boundaries
This role operates within HPs evolvingplatform and serviceoriented operating model ensuring that architectural direction AI platforms and cloud solutions align with shared platforms service ownership models and crossorganizational priorities
The pay range for this role is$147050to$230850USD 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.
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SoftwareSchedule -
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No shift premium (United States of America)Travel -
NoRelocation -
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