Principal Systems Development Engineer

Dell Technologies • TX, TX

2h • $157,250 - $203,500

About The Position

Dell Technologies’ Infrastructure Solutions Group builds hardware and software for infrastructure, computational workloads, data continuity, platforms, applications, and diagnostics. Its development approach emphasizes experimentation, customer focus, rapid feedback, and using AI to accelerate engineering while relying on human judgment to define and design trusted products.

The Principal System Development Engineer will join the Data Center Solutions Engineering team in Austin, Texas. The role focuses on designing and building automation platforms that validate data center rack infrastructure at scale. The engineer will work with hardware engineers, site deployment teams, and AI/ML infrastructure customers to develop tools that orchestrate Day 0 validation of servers, GPUs, networking, and power systems before production. The software directly supports on-time, reliable rack delivery and must operate in air-gapped data center environments around the world.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience with Python.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, asynchronous programming, and containerization, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building distributed systems or workflow orchestration using Temporal, Airflow, Argo, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of reliability patterns such as retries, sagas, and compensation.
• Familiarity with Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals including VLANs, DHCP, DNS, and SSH, and command-line tooling in server or data center environments.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted or agent-first development practices, such as using LLM-based coding tools, building AI agents, or integrating generative AI into engineering workflows.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with HPC workload managers such as Slurm or PBS.
• Experience with bare-metal server management such as Redfish, IPMI, or PXE boot.
• Experience with GPU or accelerator infrastructure such as NVIDIA CUDA, NVLink, or InfiniBand.
• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Familiarity with GitOps practices or Rancher/RKE2 in air-gapped deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop workflow orchestration platforms using technologies such as Temporal, FastAPI, and React to automate multi-phase hardware validation across servers, switches, PDUs, and accelerators.
• Build AI-agent-driven development tooling and automation using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent architectures to accelerate test development, diagnostics, and root cause analysis.
• Develop and maintain containerized test execution pipelines running on Kubernetes (RKE2) and HPC schedulers (Slurm) in air-gapped, on-premise environments.
• Integrate with hardware management interfaces such as Redfish/IPMI, gNMI, and SNMP to automate device discovery, firmware updates, BIOS configuration, and health monitoring.
• Collaborate with field deployment teams to ensure software is reliable, operator-friendly, and works without internet connectivity at customer sites.

Benefits

• Dell describes its benefits experience as supporting team members’ health and overall well-being and directs candidates to MyWellatDell.com for details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior