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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer” (Data Scientists) in CA: $124k–$228k, median $174k.
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- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 3 certified filings for “Senior AI and Machine Learning Engineer” (Data Scientists) in CA: $124k–$228k, median $174k. Most were filed at wage level I (50%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
Machine Learning Post Doctoral Research Scientist
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
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.
Job Description:
Role and Responsibilities
This Post Doctoral Research Scientist role sits within the core Machine Learning research team at Hewlett Packard Labs, HPE’s primary research organization, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The team is recognized for award-winning, top-tier publications and foundational contributions spanning reinforcement learning for complex systems, fusion, large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, generative diffusion models, trustworthy AI, optimization, and digital twins.
As part of this team, you will bridge frontier research with real-world impact, tackling complex challenges such as nuclear fusion, supercomputing and data center sustainability, quantum computing acceleration, and the trustworthiness of AI/LLM-based systems. The role requires fast paced development of research in advanced agentic implementation involving Generative Diffusion Model, ML surrogates, Agentic LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning in it’s application to nuclear fusion.
You will conduct original research and develop novel technologies across areas, including LLM reasoning, agentic and multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, generative modeling, digital twins, clean energy, and data center/private cloud optimization. The work includes multi-agent and multi-objective real-time control of complex physical systems, LLM-enabled explainable decision-making, agentic frameworks for cyber-physical systems, analytics and uncertainty quantification, and diffusion-model approaches for design and optimization.
You will be expected to provide technical thought leadership, collaborate closely with internal teams and external partners, and contribute to HPE’s research and product strategy by identifying and shaping emerging technology opportunities. Success in this role includes publishing at leading venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI) and developing patent disclosures. The position is highly hands-on, involving software prototyping and engineering, GPU acceleration, model optimization, and real-time data/streaming workflows to deliver robust AI capabilities for production-relevant use cases. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the intersection of AI research and high-impact applications with world-class collaborators.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields, focusing on Machine Learning for the dissertation.
Extensive experience with emerging Machine Learning techniques like diffusion models, LLMs, multi-agent systems, and Reinforcement Learning.
Experience in developing applications with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, with a high level of software proficiency.
Preferred Skills
Experience in applying ML to nuclear fusion strongly preferred but not required.
Experience with Generative models is strongly preferred.
Experience and deep knowledge of diff
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