Senior Principal AI Performance Architect
About The Position
Dell's Client Product Group (CPG) is seeking a Senior Principal AI System Performance Architect to join its Thermal, Power, Performance, and Acoustics (TPPA) team in Austin, Texas. The role drives system-level performance decisions across Dell's client PC portfolio, balancing performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and user experience in collaboration with silicon, operating system, and ODM partners. The position focuses on forecasting platform targets, competitive shifts, and workload bottlenecks before product definition is finalized, and partnering with marketing and product teams on target-setting and positioning. It spans collaboration with architecture, thermal, firmware, OS, and software teams from preconcept through production, and uses AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking, analysis, and performance tooling. Dell describes its engineering mission as delivering differentiated and disruptive products, experiences, and solutions. The company supports continued learning through tools and courses intended to build functional, technical, and leadership skills.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of system-level trade-offs across performance, power, thermals, acoustics, and user experience.
- Experience triaging performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers.
- Proven ability to forecast performance trends from silicon, OS, and ecosystem roadmaps.
- Ability to make data-based trade-off decisions and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong communication skills and a customer-first mindset, with experience influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- BS in Computer Engineering or a related field, with 10+ years of experience in system performance engineering.
- Experience implementing machine-learning-based performance policies.
- Hands-on experience with control frameworks, OS scheduling, and ETW/WPA trace analysis.
- Experience with competitive benchmarking across PC platforms.
Responsibilities
- Forecast performance targets and competitive positioning for the line of business before product definition, and set line-of-business-specific hardware targets.
- Lead forward-looking discussions with silicon, OS, ISV, and ODM partners.
- Collaborate with architecture, thermal, firmware, OS, and software teams from preconcept through production.
- Use and validate AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking, analysis, and performance tooling.
- Analyze system bottlenecks across performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and battery life.
Benefits
- Continued learning supported through tools and courses that build functional, technical, and leadership skills.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
