Sr. Director Of Software Engineering - AI Product Innovation

367 Garage

Creating new product categories with GenAI

HP is the original Silicon Valley garage company, where two engineers started a global revolution in technology and innovation. Today, HP is going back to its roots with 367 Garage, a new incubation group leveraging GenAI to create new product categories and the future of compute.

367 Garage operates as a startup incubator within HP, giving its teams the autonomy, resources, and support to explore, experiment, and execute on their ideas, while leveraging HP's scale of execution and distribution. 367 Garage creates products and businesses across consumer and enterprise markets, with a focus on the intersection of hardware and AI.

The name 367 Garage reflects HP's history and vision. 367 Addison Avenue is the address of the famous garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939. The garage is now a historic landmark and a symbol of HP's culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. By naming its incubation group 367 Garage, HP honors its past and looks forward to its future, where GenAI will enable new possibilities and experiences for people and businesses around the world.

Job Summary

This role is the software leader for 367 Garage, similar to the role of a startup CTO. This role is responsible for articulating the edge of what's possible, evaluating technologies and companies for their technology, articulating the architecture and approach for new initiatives, building the software engineering team, and creating the culture and cadence of the software engineering department. This role, like a startup, is equal parts vision and execution, initially establishing and working with small teams and then scaling them as they successfully mature.

This role requires someone with experience working both at scale in a big tech company, as well as direct hands-on experience at early stage startups on the hunt for product-market fit. The ideal candidate is highly technical, particularly around ML and AI, but can lead across the full stack, and also has a good product sense and business understanding, in order to map the technology choices to the context of each initiative.

The candidate should be passionate about products, the intersection of hardware and software, and inventing the future.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the technical visionary for new incubations, including what the initial architecture will be, key technology choices to make, what sequence to tackle, and what resources to hire.

• Attracts, grows, and develops the engineering team with builders and creators.

• Creates the culture of the engineering team, with an emphasis on discovery through doing, iteration, and feedback loops.

• Partners closely with product and design to deliver incredible products to the market

• Identifies which external development partners to work with, and for what

• Manages the budget of the engineering organization

Education & Experience Recommended

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.

• Typically has 15+ years of job-related and/or management experience, preferably in software designing & development, software architecture, programming languages, or a related field.

Disclaimer

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.