Lead, AI Engineering & SDLC Automation

Agilent Technologies is seeking a Lead, AI Engineering & SDLC Automation to provide technical leadership for AI engineering and software development lifecycle automation within its Developer Experience team. The role focuses on designing and implementing AI-enabled tools, agentic workflows, copilots, governance practices, and integrations that improve developer productivity, software delivery, quality, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for AI engineering and SDLC automation across PSD
• Shape the technical strategy, roadmap, and delivery approach for AI and automation in software engineering
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend tools, agents, copilots, platforms, and automation opportunities
• Design and deliver engineering tools, agentic workflows, copilots, and automation that improve developer productivity and software delivery
• Integrate these capabilities into continuous integration and delivery pipelines, developer paved roads, engineering workflows, and platform services
• Establish practical standards, governance practices, evaluation methods, safety guardrails, and secure integration patterns for responsible use of AI
• Partner with DevSecOps, Security, Quality Engineering, IT, platform teams, and engineering teams to bring automation into software delivery practices
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from discovery and experimentation through implementation, adoption, and measurement
• Build reference implementations and working examples that make it easier for teams to adopt new capabilities
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and teams adopting new development practices
• Define and track measures of success, including adoption, developer productivity, toil reduction, quality, reliability, and developer experience
• Represent PSD in technical forums and contribute technical expertise to broader AI engineering and automation efforts across Agilent