Senior Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring a Senior Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI/ML applications and pipelines on Kubernetes infrastructure while leading a team of engineers.
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced Principal AI Engineer to drive the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML-powered applications. Candidate should have strong hands-on experience in application development, lead and mentor a team of AI developers, define best practices, and deliver scalable, production grade AI solutions aligned with business goals.
Location: Spring, TX or Sunnyvale, CA
Onsite daily work required
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI applications, microservices, and APIs on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across development, staging, and production environments.
- Build and maintain end-to-end AI pipelines covering deployment, monitoring, versioning, and continuous improvement using modern MLOps/AIOps tools and practices.
- Lead and mentor a team of AI/ML engineers, conduct code reviews, and define best practices.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools, frameworks, LLM technologies, and open-source solutions to enhance platform capabilities and team productivity.
- Collaborate closely with Business Analysts, Architect and technical teams to align AI engineering efforts with business objectives and ensure secure, compliant solutions.
- Establish and maintain technical documentation, deployment runbooks and SOPs
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on AI/ML application development and deployment.
- Expertise in Kubernetes – container orchestration, Helm charts, pod management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience with MLOps/AIOps tools and practices (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, model registries, monitoring frameworks).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms – Azure, AWS, or GCP, including their AI services.
- Strong programming skills in Python; familiarity with FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks is mandatory.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitOps, Docker, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Lead and mentor development teams, drive delivery, and manage technical priorities.
- Experience working with Agentic and GenAI frameworks and vector databases etc.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for AI workloads.
- Good understanding of AI security, responsible AI principles, and governance frameworks.
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI/ML, or a related field.
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Accessibility
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What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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TCP_05The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 178,000 - 361,000 in California // 157,000 - 361,000 in Texas
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.
Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
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How we rate this
Senior Principal AI & Machine Learning Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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