Senior Director, Compute Platform Engineering

Senior Director, Compute Platform Engineering

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

We're hiring a Senior Director to lead the platform engineering organization that builds our embedded platform software, our build and release infrastructure, and the engineering practices the compute teams rely on. You'll set direction, build and grow the teams and their leaders, and reduce developer cycle time by creating modern and secure CI/CD systems. A big part of the job is making our developers more productive: getting more done, and getting it done faster, without losing quality. That includes putting AI and LLM tools to real use in how we build software and ensuring that these tools have a measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a global team of 20+ engineers, including managers and technical leads, across embedded Linux, CI/CD, build infrastructure, and developer tooling.
• Develop and execute the strategic vision, translating it into actionable roadmaps and plans.
• Optimize developer throughput and cycle times by measuring the end-to-end pipeline, setting targets, and implementing improvements.
• Identify and eliminate blockers and dependencies, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline workflows.
• Integrate AI and LLM tools into engineering processes, including code generation, testing, review, and specification work, assessing value and setting appropriate boundaries.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement: reducing friction and toil, enhancing quality, and ensuring reliable releases.
• Experiment with innovative workflows, learn from failures, and scale successful practices.
• Own the CI/CD and build strategies, ensuring automated pipelines, reproducible builds, and robust test automation.
• Maintain the security and maintainability of embedded Linux and kernel projects.
• Track key engineering metrics to inform decisions and prioritize investments.
• Hire, mentor, and develop managers and senior engineers.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering management.
• Hands-on experience with embedded systems, particularly embedded Linux.
• Expertise in CI/CD, build systems, and automation for testing and releases.
• Proven track record of improving team workflows and increasing developer productivity, supported by data and tangible process/tool improvements.
• Practical experience applying AI and LLM tools in engineering environments, with a clear understanding of their benefits and limitations.
• Contributions to open source projects and familiarity with open source ecosystems.
• Strong communication skills, able to engage effectively with engineers and executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing managers or leading cross-site teams.
• Experience shipping embedded, firmware, or platform software as part of hardware products.
• Active involvement in open source communities, such as Linux.
• Proven success in implementing AI or LLM-first practices within engineering organizations, with demonstrated results.

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. United States of America: Annual Salary USD 185,000 - 370,000 in Colorado // 176,000 - 425,500 in TexasThe listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at

The estimated job application period closure is September 28 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

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