Distinguished Technologist - Memory/Storage Utilization & Data Placement Architect
HP
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Spring, TX · Posted October 14, 2026
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About the job
Distinguished Technologist - Memory/Storage Utilization & Data Placement Architect
Description -
This role is responsible for defining how memory and storage are jointly utilized as a unified data hierarchy for AI workloads, optimizing data placement, movement, and persistence. This role leverages technical and business expertise to outline strategy roadmaps for the function. The role identifies future growth opportunities and addresses gaps with innovative solutions. The role collaborates closely with various stakeholders, empowers teams to achieve remarkable and consequential outcomes, and spearheads industry-leading research and development.
Responsibilities
Architect memory/storage hierarchy (DRAM, SSD, cache layers)
Define policies for data placement & movement across tiers (hot vs. cold data)
Optimize paging, prefetching, and streaming for AI inference/training
Partner with SW team to ensure models are co-optimized across memory & storage for max AI performance
Enable efficient use of storage as memory extension (e.g., spillover, KV cache strategies)
Collaborate with OS/runtime teams on data orchestration
Evaluate emerging approaches (unified memory, memory pooling, compression)
Leverages recognized technical and business expertise to define long-term vision and strategy for electrical hardware design and development across multiple feature areas and divisional boundaries.
Develops technology roadmaps for electrical/hardware engineering team; identifies gaps and solutions for future growth.
Communicates strategy and technology roadmaps to executive staff, industry partners and customers.
Provides innovative solutions and integrates advanced technologies, theories, or techniques with a significant impact across disciplines, championing large projects for long-range goals.
Provides consultation, design input, and feedback for new product development and design reviews across multiple organizations and architectures.
Works closely with product management, engineering stakeholders from related departments and empowers the teams to deliver outstanding and impactful results.
Initiates industry-leading research and development, serving as a recognized lead authority internally and externally.
Provides mentoring and guidance to less-experienced staff members to set an example of electrical hardware design and development, innovation, and excellence.
Participates in and provides input on process for selection of future technical leaders.
Education & Experience Recommended • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Electrical Engineering, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence. • Typically has 12+ years of work experience, preferably in electrical design and tools, software packages, architecture of electronic hardware, or a related field.
Preferred Certifications NA
Knowledge & Skills • Memory design • Computer Engineering • Computer Science • Debugging • Electrical Engineering • Electronic Engineering • Electronics • Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) • Hardware Architecture • Hardware Design • MATLAB • Mechanical Engineering • New Product Development • Oscilloscope • Physics • Printed Circuit Board • Schematic Capture • Simulations • Systems Design
Cross-Org Skills • Effective Communication • Results Orientation • Learning Agility • Digital Fluency • Customer Centricity
Impact & Scope • Impacts multiple functions and influences long-term strategic direction across multiple disciplines or areas of HP.
Complexity • Invents, develops and introduces new methods and techniques that impact multiple disciplines and work groups.
Disclaimer • This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.
The pay range for this role is 190,000.00 - 274,000.00 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.
Benefits: HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Long term/short term disability insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Life insurance
Generous time off policies, including;
4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
11 paid holidays
Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview )
The 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.
Job - Engineering
Schedule - Full time
Shift - No shift premium (United States of America)
Travel -
Relocation -
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