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You will partner with the product owner, subject matter experts, and customers to translate requirements into working software. Combine hands-on expertise in AI applications, agent harnesses, model inference, and Android development to create a reliable, scalable commercial product.\nResponsibilities\nLead software development from initial concept and prototypes through production readiness. Contribute directly to implementation across Android applications, backend services, and AI agents.\nWork with the product owner, subject matter experts, and customers to understand requirements, define acceptance criteria, assess technical trade-offs, and establish development priorities.\nCollaborate with forward-deployed engineers and customer IT to gather feedback, validate features, troubleshoot integration issues, and develop fixes. Incorporate findings into ongoing development.\nBuild and maintain agent harnesses that connect AI models with context, tools, memory, permissions, and workflows. Support multi-step execution, task interruptions, recovery, and human approvals.\nSelect, integrate, and evaluate AI models for reasoning, tool use, and vision. Optimize inference quality, latency, reliability, and cost across cloud and edge environments.\nDevelop Android applications for retail handhelds and tablets, including adaptive interfaces, voice, camera, scanning, and payments. Connect applications securely to enterprise systems through APIs, events, and adapters.\nEstablish engineering practices for AI-assisted coding, code review, automated testing, security, continuous integration, and releases. Ensure generated code is verified, and the software can be monitored and supported.\nMentor engineers, review designs and code, and lead technical issue resolution. Turn recurring customer requirements into reusable capabilities that support a maintainable, scalable commercial product.\nEducation and Experience Required\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership and hands-on development of new products from concept through production.\nDemonstrated experience building AI applications using large language models, agent frameworks or harnesses, tool calling, retrieval, inference, and evaluation.\nStrong experience developing Android applications and integrating mobile software with backend services, enterprise systems, and device capabilities.\nExperience working with customers, customer IT, or customer-facing engineers to develop features and resolve technical issues. Practical use of AI-assisted development tools is required; retail technology experience is preferred.\nKnowledge and Skills\nStrong understanding of AI application architecture and how models, agent harnesses, context, retrieval, memory, and tools work together to complete tasks.\nPractical knowledge of model selection and inference trade-offs, including accuracy, latency, throughput, cost, privacy, and cloud versus on-device execution.\nStrong Android skills, preferably Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, including context-aware interfaces, device APIs, intermittent connectivity, and workflow interruption and recovery.\nStrong mobile and backend engineering skills, including APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise integration that preserves existing business rules and transaction integrity.\nProficiency with AI-assisted coding and agentic development tools, including preparing context, breaking down tasks, reviewing generated code, debugging, and verifying results.\nAbility to translate customer specifications into technical designs and acceptance tests, diagnose failures, and evaluate AI workflows against realistic tasks and measurable outcomes.\nKnowledge of secure software development, authentication, authorization, data privacy, audit logging, automated testing, continuous integration, and release management.\nClear communication, strong technical judgment, and effective mentoring skills. Ability to manage evolving requirements and work across teams while balancing customer needs with long-term product maintainability.\nThe pay range for this role is $147,050 to $230,850 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.\nBenefits:\nHP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:\nHealth insurance\nDental insurance\nVision insurance\nLong term/short term disability insurance\nEmployee assistance program\nFlexible spending account\nLife insurance\nGenerous time off policies, including;\n4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure\n11 paid holidays\nAdditional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)\nThe compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.\nJob -\nSoftwareSchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nNo shift premium (United States of America)Travel -\nRelocation -\nEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. 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