Agentic AI Systems Evaluation Engineer

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You will be part of a global laboratory where different perspectives and experiences will help you solve problems in new ways. This is where you can build a long and wide-ranging career. About The Role We are looking for a Systems Evaluation Engineer to continuously assess whether our AI software delivers the customer experiences and system performance it is designed to achieve. You will connect user stories and product goals to measurable outcomes, develop evaluation methodologies, and interpret results throughout development. Working closely with product, architecture, and engineering teams, you will evaluate AI workloads, compare model and runtime implementations, and explain how technical performance affects the customer experience. Your findings will help teams understand trade-offs, identify gaps, and make better design and implementation decisions. This role requires deep technical understanding of AI inference and PC systems, combined with strong analytical judgment. You will own the evaluation approach and interpretation of evidence, providing continuous feedback that shapes the developing solution. What You Might Do • Translate user stories and intended customer experiences into measurable success criteria, evaluation scenarios, and performance targets. • Design repeatable benchmarking frameworks that assess AI workload effectiveness and system behavior throughout development. • Compare model formats, model runners, runtime implementations, and hardware configurations using representative workloads and controlled measurements. • Analyze inference behavior, including prompt processing, time to first token, token generation rate, latency, and memory consumption. • Evaluate system responsiveness and resource utilization under individual and concurrent AI workloads, including effects on other PC activities. • Interpret benchmark and telemetry data to distinguish meaningful improvements, regressions, measurement variability, and gaps in evaluation coverage. • Provide actionable feedback to architects and engineers, connecting technical findings to customer impact and recommending further investigation. • Build automation and reporting tools that make evaluations reproducible and results accessible to development teams. • Communicate performance trends, trade-offs, and progress against customer outcomes through technical reviews and concise executive reports. Essential Qualifications • 7+ years of experience in systems evaluation, performance engineering, software engineering, advanced validation, or a related field. • Strong understanding of AI systems and inference workloads, including model execution, prompt processing, and runtime behavior. • Experience designing benchmarking methodologies, selecting meaningful metrics, and interpreting complex system performance data. • Familiarity with model formats such as ONNX and GGUF, model runners, and the implications of different execution approaches. • Understanding of system-level performance, including compute utilization, memory constraints, concurrency, and interactions between AI workloads and the operating system. • Strong programming and automation skills in Python, C++, or another relevant language, with experience building evaluation tools or data analysis workflows. • Ability to translate technical measurements into customer impact and communicate actionable findings across product, architecture, and engineering teams. • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, statistics, software engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred Skills • Experience evaluating AI workloads on Windows and Linux PCs or other edge devices. • Knowledge of attention mechanisms, KV caching, quantization, and other inference optimization concepts and their implications for evaluation. • Experience analyzing device telemetry and combining benchmark results with observations from representative customer scenarios. • Familiarity with CPU, GPU, and NPU execution and the challenges of comparing performance across heterogeneous hardware. • Experience with statistical analysis, experimental design, and methods for separating real performance changes from measurement noise. • Background in advanced systems validation with substantial depth in AI inference, performance analysis, and benchmarking automation. The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 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. 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. 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 progr