Senior Software Development Engineer - AI and Optimization

Senior Software Development Engineer - AI and Optimization This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week 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: About the Role As a Senior Software Development Engineer within HPE's Product Security Office, you will design, build, and scale AI-enabled security applications that improve engineering productivity, security analysis, automation, and decision-making across the enterprise. You will combine software engineering, AI/ML, large language models, agentic workflows, data engineering, and secure development practices to create capabilities that accelerate how Product Security teams identify risk, generate insight, and drive remediation. This role requires strong technical depth, systems thinking, and a builder mindset. You will work across Product Security, engineering, data, and platform teams to transform complex security challenges into scalable software solutions that deliver measurable impact. About You You are an experienced software engineer who enjoys building new capabilities from ambiguous problems. You combine strong software engineering fundamentals with curiosity about AI technologies and their practical application to cybersecurity challenges.  You can move comfortably between architecture discussions, hands-on development, AI experimentation, and production deployment. You focus on delivering solutions that are maintainable, scalable, and measurable, and you look for opportunities to create capabilities that continue delivering value long after the initial implementation is complete.    What you’ll do: • Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex software applications and platforms, providing technical leadership across solution design, analysis, coding, testing, integration, and deployment activities.  • Drive end-to-end execution of software engineering initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with business and technical objectives.  • Review and evaluate software designs, architecture decisions, and development activities to ensure alignment with engineering standards, improve solution quality, and reduce operational and delivery risk.  • Provide technical expertise and engineering leadership for cross-functional projects, influencing technical direction, resolving complex challenges, and enabling successful delivery across organizational boundaries.  • Champion the evaluation, adoption, and integration of emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices that improve product capabilities, developer productivity, and overall solution effectiveness.  • Contribute to the definition and evolution of software engineering standards, development methodologies, and best practices that support consistent and high-quality delivery.  • Mentor and coach engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on collaboration, helping to strengthen engineering capability across the team.    What you need to bring: • Bachelor's or Master's degree in