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As a Hardware Principal Systems Engineer, you'll get early hands-on access to next-generation hardware, lead the configuration, integration, and system-level validation that readies these platforms for telco deployment, and represent the voice of the customer in global new product development. You'll diagnose complex issues across hardware, firmware, BIOS, management controllers, and OS layers while partnering with product, marketing, and account teams worldwide, delivering visible impact and deep technical growth.\nJoin us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Hardware Principal Engineer on our Systems Development Engineering team in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.\n You will:\nConfigure, build, and test new ruggedized server configurations in a hands-on lab to meet emerging telecom and far-edge customer requirements.\nDevelop and execute system-level test and validation plans for new server products.\nDeploy and validate firmware, BIOS, BMC, and OS stacks across new hardware configurations.\nTranslate ambiguous customer issues into actionable validation plans; execute them, diagnose root causes, and deliver clear solution recommendations.\nRepresent the voice of the telco and service-provider customer in technical requirements discussions with global engineering teams.\nEngage across product management, technical marketing, and account teams to surface, confirm, and resolve customer deployment challenges.\nBalance and prioritize concurrent validation workloads across multiple stakeholders and competing program deadlines.\nKnowledge Application\nApplies deep, wide-ranging systems-level expertise across hardware, firmware, BIOS, management controllers, and OS to resolve complex integration and validation challenges.\nUnderstands how design choices interact with real-world edge conditions: thermal, power, shock, vibration, and space constraints, and applies that insight to diagnose multi-layer problems.\nDirects the application of established engineering principles and guides the development of new validation methodologies for ruggedized platforms.\nProblem Solving\nIndependently converts high-level direction or ambiguous customer issues into structured plans with clear actions, milestones, and success criteria.\nPerforms root cause analysis on complex systems where failures may originate in any layer, hardware, firmware, BIOS, BMC, or OS, and in the interaction between them and the deployment environment.\nExercises strong judgment in selecting methods, adapting techniques, and defining evaluation criteria to reach well-supported, defensible conclusions.\nCollaboration & Interaction\nPartners hands-on with peers and remotely with engineering teams across distributed global sites to achieve shared outcomes.\nEngages cross-functional teams: product management, technical marketing, and account teams, to advance solutions to customer deployment problems.\nCarries the voice of the telco/edge customer into global product and engineering decisions, ensuring real deployment conditions shape product design.\nConveys technical findings, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.\nEssential Requirements\n8+ years of related experience in a professional role with a Bachelor's degree; or 6+ years with a Master's degree; or 3+ years with a PhD; or equivalent experience.\nHands-on experience validating server hardware, including firmware/BIOS/BMC bring-up, OS deployment, and multi-layer system diagnostics, is strongly preferred.\nComputer architecture (e.g. x86, ARM), Electrical engineering & hardware development (motherboard, PCIe, DDR, etc.), Hardware & firmware diagnostics & troubleshooting, Server hardware configuration (rack servers, blade servers, etc.)\nDeveloping and executing test strategies, System-level validation & test (hardware, firmware, BIOS, OS), \nEnvironmental, thermal, and EMC/regulatory validation (e.g. NEBS, ETSI, MIL-STD)\nDesirable Requirements\nExposure to ruggedized, telecom, or edge platforms and familiarity with NEBS, ETSI, or MIL-STD environmental/EMC requirements\nOperating systems (OS) installation, configuration, and troubleshooting (Windows, Linux, etc.) \nCompensation\nDell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position is $ 161,500 - 209,000 USD.\nBenefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies\nYour life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. 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