ResponsibilitiesSr. Principal Hardware EngineerDell Technologies is leading the transformation of AI infrastructure, delivering high-performance, liquid-cooled platforms that power next-generation workloads. Our Emerging Technologies (XE) Engineering organization is focused on Dell's AI server portfolio, L11 rack-scale solutions, and cluster-scale deployments that solve some of the most complex engineering challenges in the industry. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a measurable impact by enabling the design, deployment, and lifecycle success of advanced AI systems at global scale.
Join us as a Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer in Austin, Texas to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.
What You'll AchieveLead the architecture, development, integration, validation, and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms. Serve as the technical authority for PCI Express, Memory, Power Delivery, and Systems Management technologies across the complete product lifecycle, from concept development through deployment, sustaining engineering, and customer support.
Drive platform innovation, quality, reliability, and performance while partnering with silicon vendors, ODMs, manufacturing, quality, firmware, systems engineering, and hyperscale customers. Lead critical technical investigations, root-cause analysis, and field escalations while influencing future-generation platform architectures.
Provide strategic technical leadership across multiple engineering organizations to ensure robust, scalable, serviceable, and highly available infrastructure solutions.
You will:- Lead PCIe architecture strategy and technology roadmaps for AI infrastructure platforms, driving compliance, interoperability, validation, debug, performance optimization, and development standards across current and next-generation solutions
- Define memory subsystem architectures, validation methodologies, and design requirements, while leading investigations into memory performance, reliability, qualification, and field quality improvements
- Drive platform and rack-level power architecture development, including power delivery, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, power integrity, and optimization of efficiency, scalability, and resiliency for high-performance AI systems
- Define systems management and serviceability strategies, leading BMC, telemetry, health monitoring, diagnostics, remote management, observability, and fleet-management capabilities to support deployment and operational excellence
- Serve as a senior technical leader and subject matter expert, guiding customer escalations, root-cause investigations, executive review
QualificationsEssential Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering (or related field) with 15+ years of experience leading electrical hardware engineering, platform architecture, and infrastructure development initiatives
- Deep expertise in server and rack-scale electrical architectures, including PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, memory subsystems (DDR4/DDR5, HBM, RDIMM, MRDIMM), and high-speed signaling with strong SI/PI knowledge
- Extensive experience designing and validating power delivery architectures, power distribution networks, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, and platform management solutions, including BMC and system serviceability
- Proven success leading complex hardware development programs from concept through production, with strong knowledge of validation, qualification, manufacturing, reliability engineering, and system-level root cause analysis
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy across organizations, lead executive-level technical reviews and customer engagements, and influence cross-functional engineering teams to deliver business-critical outcomes
Desirable Requirements:- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (or related field) with expertise in AI/HPC platforms leveraging NVIDIA HGX, NVL72, GB200/GB300, B100/B200, and emerging technologies including CXL, PCIe Gen7, memory pooling, composable infrastructure, and rack-scale power/cooling architectures
- Hands-on experience with platform management ecosystems (OpenBMC, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, IPMI), hyperscale datacenter deployments, advanced design and analysis tools (Cadence, HyperLynx, Sigrity, Ansys, ADS), failure analysis and resiliency methodologies, and collaboration with silicon vendors, ODMs, cloud providers, and strategic customers
CompensationDell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $187k - $242k.
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