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Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.\nSome product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.\nWithin ISG, innovation isn't just about creating new technology- it's about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers' trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.\nWe move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren't looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.\nIf you're energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what's next instead of simply maintaining what's been done before, you'll find your place here.\nFrom applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to\nshape ground-breaking products, material and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in\nassessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies and generating intellectual\nproperty. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities and recommend potential\nacquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions.\nAnd we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way.\nJoin us as aStaff Technologist-AI Architect on our ISG-CTOteam in Santa Clara, California to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.\nWhat you’ll achieve\nAs a Staff Technologist-AI Architect, you will architect Dell’s next-generation AI Architecture (including the Dell AI Factory) by driving the empirical characterization, performance modeling, and full-stack integration of frontier AI models and autonomous agentic systems. You will evaluate cutting-edge model architectures, build automated performance benchmarking harnesses across diverse accelerators, and design turnkey production architectures bridging Kubernetes, low-latency inference runtimes, enterprise data platforms, and confidential hardware fabrics.\nYou will:\nArchitect Dell’s Next-Gen AI Architectures : Drive end-to-end reference architectures and system-level validation for enterprise-scale AI platforms (e.g., Dell AI Factory, rack-scale IR7000/IR9100 liquid-cooled systems, and modular HGX/NVLink clusters).\nFrontier Model Characterization & Trend Tracking : Track, evaluate, and characterize emerging frontier model architectures and reasoning paradigms (e.g., dense Transformers, large-scale Mixture-of-Experts like DeepSeek-V3/V4 and Llama 4 Scout, hybrid attention, and native multimodal models).\nHands-On Deployment & Performance Benchmarking : Design and automate hands-on benchmarking pipelines to rigorously measure critical inference metrics across real-world workloads (e.g., profiling Time to First Token [TTFT], Inter-Token Latency [ITL], prefill/decode disaggregation, KV-cache memory offload, and FP8/FP4 quantization).\nAgentic Frameworks & Multi-Agent Systems: Understand and design for autonomous, multi-step agentic execution patterns, tool calling, and execution loops (e.g.NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxes). \nData & Context Layer for AI : Integrate high-throughput data pipelines and context-grounding platforms to eliminate ETL and prevent hallucinations (e.g., Dell AI Data Platform [AIDP], Starburst/Trino federated SQL, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch vector indexing, and RAG architectures).\n\nTake the first step towards your dream career\nEvery Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. 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