Senior Principal Systems Development Engineer

Senior Principal Systems Development Engineer

We are seeking a passionate and visionary Senior Principal Systems Development Engineer to join our Root Cause Engineering team, to deliver customer solutions at the highest standards of quality and reliability, on time and within budget. In this senior role within our multi-disciplined engineering team, you will bring together your hardware and software engineering skills to accelerate the first-to-market delivery of AI& Serverenterprise compute, storage, and networking solutions. This Senior level position will require the organization skills to lead a work group or a designated team to design, develop, and troubleshoot electronic, electro-mechanical and solution-orientated offers, driving excellence and innovation along every vector of the product lifecycle. Join us to do the best work of your career.

What you’ll achieve:

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will lead high-impact initiatives, owning end-to-end architectures and complex integration strategies. You will prototype solutions, validate patterns, and ensure non-functional requirements are met at scale.

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Root Cause Analysis and Defect Resolution: Identify and resolve issues efficiently, ensuring the highest quality standards. Contribute as a Subject Matter Expert in specific field of knowledge, or at a minimum have a path to provide the leadership in a specific functional area.
• Manage Debug Efforts: Oversee and coordinate debug efforts across diverse engineering teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and delivery of solutions to critical design issues.
• Operationalize Architectural Excellence: Engage with internal Dell team members, vendors, and technical partners across global sites to operationalize architectural excellence in product design.
• Subsystem Integration: Work across subsystems including AI solutions and hardware design for high-speed signal circuit boards, CPU & memory complexes, GPUs and accelerators, network devices and fabrics, enterprise storage arrays, direct liquid cooling solutions, AC-DC and DC-DC power architectures, Dell iDRAC systems management software, BIOS, FPGA, firmware, enterprise operating systems, and data center rack-solution designs.
• Portfolio Mindset: You will drive solution and release readiness with a closed-loop focus on best practices across portfolios and business units while managing multiple assignment and activities simultaneously.
• Vendor and Technical Partner Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors and technical partners to ensure alignment and success.
• WorkTeamLeadership: Enable other engineers within your workgroups through the sharing of strong subject matter expertise and insights to drive best practices and optimize project outcomes to meet our customers’ needs. This includes a strong mentorship of engineers to continue their development and get them on track and provided a significant contribution to the team and to Dell.

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

• Strong background in development engineering of AI & Server enterprise compute, storage, and networking architectures, with proven experience in hardware and software interactions, and the ability to apply these understandings to resolve issues.
• Expertise in root cause analysis, and defect resolution, with emphasis on the skilled configuration and use of cutting-edge signal integrity laboratory equipment, including high-speed oscilloscopes and PCIe analyzers (e.g., selection and configuration of high-speed probes, configuration of complex triggers, interpretation of traces and scope captures).
• Ability to manage and inspire multi-disciplined engineering workgroups to achieve outstanding results.
• Ability to influence others to achieve results and drive project success.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Educational Requirements: 8 to 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a master’s degree, or equivalent.

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $182,750 - $236,500.