Principal Security Engineer, Agentic AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

. Design and develop scalable architectures for production-grade agentic AI systems .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $126,500 - $290,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and developing scalable architectures for agentic AI systems, with strong capabilities in backend software engineering, distributed systems, and security engineering principles. Proficient in building multi-agent workflows, integrating APIs, and implementing observability across complex systems.

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Agent OrchestrationBackend Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsSecurity Engineering PrinciplesPython Programming

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Hard Skills

AI System DesignMulti-Agent ArchitecturesExecution HarnessesModel-Agnostic InterfacesREST/gRPC APIsAsynchronous ServicesDockerKubernetesCloud InfrastructureFrameworks (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK)

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationTechnical Tradeoff Analysis

Tools & Technologies

CI/CDMCP ServersVector DatabasesHybrid SearchObservability Tools

Industry Keywords

Artificial IntelligenceDistributed SystemsMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureCybersecurity Automation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsDockerGRPCKubernetesMicroservicesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and develop scalable architectures for production-grade agentic AI systems
Build agent orchestration, multi-agent workflows, state management, memory, tool integration, and human-in-the-loop capabilities
Design reusable execution harnesses and services separating AI reasoning and planning from deterministic execution
Develop model-agnostic interfaces supporting multiple foundation models, providers, and inference platforms
Build and integrate MCP servers, APIs, tool registries, skills, enterprise services, and data sources
Develop retrieval and context services including RAG, hybrid search, vector databases, and agent memory
Build backend services supporting asynchronous and distributed agent execution
Design evaluation and testing capabilities for agent behavior, tool usage, task completion, security, reliability, and performance
Implement observability across agent execution, model interactions, tools, state transitions, and system performance
Apply security engineering principles including least privilege, sandboxing, authorization, secrets management, guardrails, and auditability
Deploy and operate agentic services using containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern cloud-native engineering practices
Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, protocols, and technologies while maintaining architectural independence from individual vendors or platforms

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Typically 5–8 years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, AI engineering, or related experience
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering production software systems
Hands-on experience developing LLM-powered or agentic systems strongly preferred
Deep expertise in at least two of five technical concentration areas and strong working knowledge across the remaining areas
Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven and asynchronous architectures
Knowledge of workflow, state management, concurrency, scalability, and fault tolerance
Experience with agent orchestration, multi-agent architectures, planning, tool calling, delegation, state, memory, and long-running workflows
Experience with MCP, A2A, tool registries, skills, and reusable agent capabilities
Experience with execution harnesses, sandboxed execution, and human-in-the-loop patterns
Experience with frameworks such as LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or equivalent
Knowledge of foundation model APIs and open-weight/self-hosted models
Knowledge of model abstraction, routing, fallback, benchmarking, and workload-based model selection
Knowledge of structured generation, tool/function calling, RAG, hybrid retrieval, embeddings, re-ranking, vector databases, and context management
Strong Python and backend software engineering skills
Experience with REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous services, messaging, and distributed processing
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure
Knowledge of logging, metrics, tracing, observability, and production troubleshooting
Knowledge of agent and model evaluation, regression testing, and task-success measurement
Knowledge of AI security, prompt injection, tool abuse, and data leakage protections
Knowledge of least privilege, identity, authorization, sandboxing, policy enforcement, guardrails, human approval gates, monitoring, traceability, and auditability
Experience building reusable agent platforms, harnesses, or tool ecosystems preferred
Experience with cybersecurity automation or security-sensitive systems preferred
Experience operating open-weight models and commercial foundation-model platforms preferred
Experience with enterprise-scale distributed or cloud-native systems preferred
Ability to communicate system architecture, technical tradeoffs, and design decisions clearly

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing
Personal and professional development programs
Flexible work arrangements to manage work and personal needs
Hybrid work arrangement
Employee benefits information provided for US employees