Principal Engineer – Generative AI & LLM Platforms

About the role

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the design and delivery of production‑grade Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) platforms. The role is hybrid, requiring on‑site collaboration at an HPE office two days per week.

Key responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and multi‑year product roadmaps for AI and LLM solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive customer‑focused innovation.
• Architect scalable, low‑latency, multi‑tenant distributed systems for production‑grade LLMs and agentic solutions.
• Lead prompt engineering, model fine‑tuning, customization, and evaluation, including guardrails, privacy, bias, and safety.
• Manage observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and cross‑team influence across the organization.
• Drive agile delivery, rapid prototyping, and product ionization.

Required profile

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or a related field.
• 15+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of technical leadership at Staff, Principal, or Architect level.
• Demonstrated ability to own architecture for large‑scale production systems and influence multiple teams.

Required skills

• Strong hands‑on proficiency in Python and Golang.
• Solid understanding of APIs, asynchronous processing, testing, and software design principles.
• Deep knowledge of transformer‑based LLMs, tokenization, embeddings, context management, and prompt engineering.