{"id":162557,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hp-inc-sr-manager-future-computing-prototyping-studio","title":"Sr. Manager, Future Computing Prototyping Studio","company":{"id":72,"name":"HP Inc.","domain":"hp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hewlett-packard","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":165,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.673,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Shanghai, China"],"countries":["CN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":46000,"max_usd":104000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1655},"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA Toolkit","optional":false},{"name":"KVM","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"LocalAI","optional":false},{"name":"QEMU","optional":false},{"name":"ROCm","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-17T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T08:06:11Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":61,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":61},"description":"Sr. Manager, Future Computing Prototyping StudioDescription -\nThe Opportunity\nHP is creating a Shanghai-based Future Computing Prototyping Studio to make the next generation of personal computing tangible on real HP hardware.\nWe are seeking a highly technical, entrepreneurial leader to build and manage this new organization. The Sr Manager will lead a multidisciplinary team spanning Linux, Android, virtualization, containers, hardware integration, AI developer tools, cloud services, UX design, and China ecosystem integration.\nThe studio will work at the intersection of product strategy, advanced engineering, hardware development, software platforms, silicon partnerships, ODM execution, and experience design. Its purpose is to move quickly from concept to a credible, executive-ready hardware demonstration-typicallywithin four to twelve weeks.\nThe goal of the studio is not simply to create demonstrations. Prototypes will be used to validate customer value, technical feasibility, experience quality, partner readiness, and business potential. The strongest ideas should become HP products, software solutions, services, platform capabilities, or formal product-development programs.\nAs validated concepts move into productization, this role may expand to establish and manage the product and engineering teams responsible for bringing those concepts to market. The successful candidate must therefore be equally capable of leading early-stage experimentation and building durable organizations that can deliver commercial products and solutions.\nThis leader must be comfortable building an organization while simultaneously delivering its first prototypes. The role requires someone who can recruit exceptional technical talent, make sound architecture decisions, work directly with ODM engineering teams, establish a high-velocity development culture, and communicate complex technical opportunities clearly to senior HP leaders.\nWhat the Team Will Build\nThe initial portfolio will concentrate on three major areas.\nLinux Developer PCs on HP Hardware\nThe team will create differentiated Linux developer experiences for NVIDIA- and AMD-powered HP machines. These prototypes will combine reproducible Linux images, GPU and driver enablement, AI developer environments, containers, local model execution, modern development tools, hardware telemetry, and polished setup and recovery experiences.\nInitial demonstrations will include:\nAn HP Linux AI Developer PC for NVIDIA-powered systems, incorporating validated Linux and CUDA environments, containerized workloads, local AI inference, developer tools, GPU telemetry, and secure provisioning.\nAn HP Linux Developer PC for AMD-powered systems, incorporating AMDGPU, Mesa, ROCm or other applicable acceleration paths, developer containers, graphics and media validation, local AI workloads, and power and suspend/resume optimization.\nAndroid PC Hardware Bring-Up\nThe team will work with HP hardware groups, silicon partners, and ODMs to bring up Android or AOSP-derived software on PC-class devices.\nThe work will include:\nAndroid board-support package and hardware abstraction layer integration.\nDesktop Android shell, windowing, input, display, file-management, and productivity experiences.\nAndroid applications adapted to PC form factors.\nHardware enablement across display, camera, audio, connectivity, sensors, power, thermal behavior, and suspend/resume.\nChina application, cloud, AI, and software-distributionecosystem integration.\nHypervisors, Containers, and Cloud-Managed Prototypes\nThe team will prototype secure combinations of Android, Linux, virtual machines, and containers using technologies such as KVM, pKVM, crosvm, QEMU, virtio, Android virtualization patterns, and Linux container runtimes.\nThe studio will also operate the cloud services required to provision, update, monitor, reset, and demonstrate prototype devices reliably.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild and Lead the Organization\nEstablish the Shanghai Future Computing Prototyping Studio, including its operating model, engineering culture, technical standards, lab environment, partner cadence, and portfolio-management process.\nRecruit, hire, onboard, and develop the initial team\nPersonally lead the selection and closing of the organization’s critical anchor hires, including Linux, Android, virtualization, hardware integration, AI, cloud, developer-experience,UX, and technical-program leaders.\nPartner closely with HP Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, compensation teams, universities, external search partners, and technical interviewers.\nBuild a recruiting pipeline across experienced hires, open-source contributors, ODM and silicon-industry talent, new graduates, interns, contractors, and university research communities.\nEstablish technical interview loops that assess systems thinking, open-source depth, hardware-debug capability, practical coding ability, architectural judgment, and the ability to create compelling prototypes.\nCreate succession plans, technical career paths, mentoring practices, and an inclusive culture that attracts and retains exceptional engineers and designers.\nEstablish additional product or engineering teams when validated prototypes advance into funded product and solution programs.\nOwn Technical and Product Direction\nDefine the studio’s technical architecture and prototype roadmap in partnership with HP product, engineering, design, strategy, and business leaders.\nTranslate broad future-computing concepts into bounded four-to-twelve-week prototype programs with real hardware targets and measurable acceptance criteria.\nDefine the hypotheses each prototype is intended to test, including customer value, technical feasibility, performance, usability, ecosystem readiness, supportability, and commercial differentiation.\nEnsure that the team maintains credible technical depth across Linux, Android, AOSP, kernel and driver integration, GPU software, virtualization, containers, cloud infrastructure, and PC hardware.\nBalance rapid prototype development with reusable platform assets, sound security practices, clear documentation, and credible productization paths.\nMake informed build, buy, partner, upstream, productize, or discontinue decisions.\nMaintain a strong understanding of NVIDIA and AMD Linux developer stacks, Android platform architecture, hypervisor and container technologies, AI development workflows, and emerging PC software ecosystems.\nEnsure prototypes distinguish clearly between demonstrated capability, validated product potential, technical feasibility, and production readiness.\nValidate Ideas and Convert Them into Products and Solutions\nDesign prototypes around explicit customer, product, and business hypotheses rather than technology demonstrations alone.\nEstablish validation plans using customer research, developer feedback, technical benchmarks, executive reviews, partner input, and limited pilots where appropriate.\nDetermine whether each concept should be discontinued, refined, incorporated into an existing HP product, or advanced into a new product or solution program.\nBuild concise investment cases for validated concepts, including intended customer, differentiated value, technical architecture, required resources, partner dependencies, risks, cost, schedule, and commercial opportunity.\nCreate productization plans and transfer packages that allow receiving teams to continue the work without losing technical context or prototype learning.\nWork with HP product management, engineering, commercial, services, support, security, legal, and go-to-market organizations to establish the teams and operating model needed to bring validated concepts to market.\nPotentially assume broader management responsibility for these product and solution teams as they are formed.\nDeliver Working Hardware Prototypes\nDeliver executive-quality prototypes on HP or approved near-target hardware rather than relying primarily on presentations or simulations.\nLead the first prototype portfolio:HP Linux AI Developer PC - NVIDIA Edition.\nHP Linux Developer PC - AMD Edition.\nHP Android PC - Hypervisor/Container Edition.\n\nEstablish a common prototype platform for device provisioning, telemetry, image management, cloud services, AI-service access, update, rollback, logging, and remote reset.\nCreate clear demonstration narratives that connect technical capabilities to customer value, HP differentiation, partner strategy, and potential product roadmaps.\nConduct regular live reviews with HP senior leadership, target users, developers, and ecosystem partners and convert feedback into rapid iteration.\nPrepare technical and product transfer packages for concepts selected for further investment.\nLead ODM and Ecosystem Execution\nEstablish direct, high-frequency working relationships with ODM engineering organizations, silicon partners, component suppliers, cloud providers, and software ecosystem partners.\nCreate a weekly ODM integration and blocker-resolution process with named owners, severity levels, next actions, and escalation paths.\nCoordinate hardware, BIOS, firmware, embedded-controller, BSP, driver, power, thermal, camera, audio, display, input, networking, and validation work across HP and partner teams.\nEnsure that external engineering partners are integrated into the studio’s operating rhythm rather than engaged only at final handoff.\nBuild productive relationships with Chinese Android, Open Harmony, Linux, cloud, AI, and application ecosystem participants.\nRepresent HP appropriately in open-source and technical communities and identify opportunities to contribute reusable work upstream.\nManage Portfolio, Budget, and Executive Communication\nOwn the studio’s staffing plan, operating budget, hardware and cloud investments, external engineering spend, and resource allocation.\nMaintain a disciplined portfolio process in which each prototype has a sponsor, customer or user hypothesis, hardware target, technical owner, UX owner, validation plan, schedule, acceptance criteria, and explicit stop, iterate, transfer, or productize decision.\nCommunicate progress, risks, architecture choices, hiring status, partner dependencies, validation results, and product implications to senior executives in concise business and technical terms.\nEscalate issues early and propose concrete choices rather than reporting problems without recommendations.\nDevelop resource and organizational plans for concepts that are approved to become HP products or solutions.\nBuild effective transitions from exploratory prototyping into accountable product development and delivery teams.\nEducation and Experience Required\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nTypically 15 or more years of relevant engineering, product-development, or advanced-technology experience.\nSignificant experience leading multidisciplinary software or systems-engineering 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