Dell

Principal Systems Engineer

Dell$157K — $203K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of experience with a bachelor's degree or 6+ years with a master's degree
  • Strong understanding of computer systems
  • Broad knowledge of hardware and software interactions
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to lead and influence workgroups effectively

Responsibilities

  • Deliver system interfaces across extended teams
  • Develop design and architectural documentation for innovative features
  • Design and implement efficient, scalable methods for HW and SW integration
  • Prepare test and diagnostic programs for new products
  • Create prototypes and debug features for next generation systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Employee discounts
  • Professional development programs
  • Support for work-life balance
Full Job Description
Job Description

Principal Systems Development Engineer

Our customers' system requirements are usually highly complex. Bringing together hardware and software systems design, Systems Development Engineering operates at the very cutting edge of technology to meet them. We design and develop electronic and electro-mechanical or systems-orientated products, conduct feasibility studies on engineering proposals and prepare installation, operation and maintenance specifications and instructions. We're proud to deliver programs and products to the highest quality standards, on time and within budget.

Join us as a Principal Systems Development Engineer on our Engineering Development team in Round Rock TX to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What you'll achieve
As a Principal Systems Development Engineer, you will architect, design, and implement complex embedded system and platform-level solutions for Dell's enterprise products. Our team drives innovative, board-level, and SoC-level platform architectures. Delivering detailed designs and specifications that span system control hardware, firmware, and system embedded software, while enabling scalable design methodologies across product lines.

You will:
  • Define and develop internal system control architectures including board-level interfaces, bus topologies, and hardware-firmware integration points across extended teams
  • Create design and architectural documentation for embedded platform features, defining innovative technologies for next-generation system-on-chip, board, and subsystem designs.
  • Design, develop, and implement efficient and scalable embedded design methods spanning silicon, firmware, BIOS/BMC, FPGA, and hardware abstraction layers, including security features for servers.
  • Develop bring-up and validation strategies, create prototypes, write low-level test and diagnostic software, and debug new features on next-generation platforms

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements
  • 8 to 12 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree or 6+ years with a master's degree
  • Strong understanding of computer systems, embedded computer architecture, including processor subsystems, BMC subsystems, peripheral interfaces (PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB), and power management
  • Demonstrated experience with hardware-firmware-software co-design and the ability to debug and resolve issues across abstraction layers
  • Familiarity with schematic review, signal integrity concepts, or board-level design collaboration
  • Familiarity with embedded firmware, BIOS/UEFI, BMC, FPGA, or device driver development and familiarity with lab instrumentation (logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers) for system debug

Desirable Requirements
  • Strong communication skills with an ability to lead a workgroup as well as capability to influence others to achieve results
  • Experience with platform boot flows, system initialization, HW/FW security, or operating systems

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $157,250 - $203,500

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133,000 employees
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Net Income
$3.2 billion
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
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$94.2 billion
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