Hardware Senior Principal Engineer
About The Position
Dell Technologies’ Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) develops infrastructure, solutions, and data management products. Within ISG, engineers define product intent and specifications and use AI agents to support development. The Emerging Technologies (XE) Engineering organization focuses on Dell’s AI server portfolio, L11 rack-scale solutions, and cluster-scale deployments. The Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer will lead the architecture, development, integration, validation, and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms. The role serves as a technical authority for PCI Express, memory, power delivery, and systems management across the product lifecycle, from concept development through deployment, sustaining engineering, and customer support. The engineer will drive platform innovation, quality, reliability, and performance in partnership with silicon vendors, ODMs, manufacturing, quality, firmware, systems engineering, and hyperscale customers. The position also provides strategic technical leadership across engineering organizations to deliver robust, scalable, serviceable, and highly available infrastructure solutions. The role is based in Austin, Texas.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or a related field.
- 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 knowledge of validation, qualification, manufacturing, reliability engineering, and system-level root-cause analysis.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Expertise in AI/HPC platforms leveraging NVIDIA HGX, NVL72, GB200/GB300, and B100/B200.
- Experience with emerging technologies including CXL, PCIe Gen7, memory pooling, composable infrastructure, and rack-scale power/cooling architectures.
- Hands-on experience with platform management ecosystems such as OpenBMC, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP, and IPMI.
- Experience with hyperscale datacenter deployments and advanced design and analysis tools such as Cadence, HyperLynx, Sigrity, Ansys, and ADS.
- Experience with failure analysis and resiliency methodologies and collaboration with silicon vendors, ODMs, cloud providers, and strategic customers.
Responsibilities
- Lead PCIe architecture strategy and technology roadmaps for AI infrastructure platforms, including compliance, interoperability, validation, debug, performance optimization, and development standards.
- Define memory subsystem architectures, validation methodologies, and design requirements; lead 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, efficiency, scalability, and resiliency.
- Define systems management and serviceability strategies, including BMC, telemetry, health monitoring, diagnostics, remote management, observability, and fleet-management capabilities.
- Lead architecture, development, integration, validation, and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and subject-matter expertise, including guiding customer escalations, root-cause investigations, and executive technical reviews.
- Partner with silicon vendors, ODMs, manufacturing, quality, firmware, systems engineering, and hyperscale customers.
- Lead critical technical investigations, root-cause analysis, and field escalations, and influence future-generation platform architectures.
- Drive platform innovation, quality, reliability, and performance across the product lifecycle.
Benefits
- Benefits and perks are available to Dell Technologies team members; details are provided at MyWellatDell.com.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
