HPE
Distinguished Technologist, Agentic AIOps & Self-Driving Networks
$194K–$412K
Sunnyvale, California · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 13, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline preferred.
About the job
Architects HPE’s agentic AIOps and self-driving network platform, spanning assurance, network data models, AI agents, safety controls, evaluation, and cross-business-unit strategy.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end assurance and shared network data architecture, including telemetry, correlation, root cause analysis, remediation, and outcome verification.
- Architect agentic orchestration and safety controls; establish evaluation practices and choose appropriately among graph reasoning, classical ML, and generative AI.
- Influence stakeholders across business units and mentor senior technical leaders.
What they ask for
- 15+ years building and operating large distributed systems in production, with engineering and architectural leadership.
- Networking breadth across campus, data center, WAN/SD-WAN, and security, with depth in at least three; deep networking fundamentals.
- Experience with graph systems, production AIOps or observability, applied AI, and cloud-native systems at scale.
- Strong hands-on Python and Go coding; demonstrated Principal or Distinguished-level impact across multiple organizations.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
Pay
USD 194,000 - 412,500 (base salary)
Tools
EVPN-VXLAN, BGP, SAI, gNMI/OpenConfig, MCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Python, Go
AI focus
Architects LLM agents, tool calling, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, and agent evaluation; applies classical ML and time-series modeling, and sets when to use generative AI versus graph reasoning or ML.
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