Senior Principal Engineering Technologist

Dell Technologies•Austin, TX

5d•$200,000 - $258,000

About The Position

Dell Technologies is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer, Mechanical Architect for PC Notebooks to join its Engineering Technologist team in Austin, Texas. The team shapes products, materials, and processes through applied research and advanced engineering, including technology investigations, product strategy, intellectual property generation, industry capability analysis, and recommendations for acquisitions or vendor partnerships. The role establishes mechanical product requirements, engineers products to meet them, and validates that they do. The engineer works with internal development teams, external suppliers, and development partners to develop innovative mechanical solutions for PCs, particularly notebooks. The role ensures products meet targets for quality, features, cost, schedule, reliability, acoustics, regulatory compliance, and safety. Responsibilities include mechanical architecture, component- and system-level specifications, creating and directing CAD models, interpreting test data, reporting project status, and driving suppliers and development partners to deliver robust solutions. The position provides technical expertise and engineering leadership in mobile product design, especially during the front-end design cycle. It collaborates with Marketing and internal teams on product requirements and customer-focused concepts, leads cross-functional technical decisions, communicates design concepts using 3D CAD, and works with technology providers to identify innovation opportunities, assess risks, support implementation readiness, and generate intellectual property.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field.
10+ years of experience.
Strong ability to assess and optimize products by making feature tradeoffs across mechanical, electrical, power, thermal, firmware, and BIOS considerations.
Excellent working knowledge of engineering design principles, with expertise in large-scale production, sheet metal, injection molding, electrical interconnects, heat extraction, and vibration.
Extensive experience with 3D CAD systems, including creating basic concept models and interrogating production development models.
Ability to communicate ideas through CAD and interpret mechanical simulations, design requirements, test requirements, and qualification requirements.

Nice To Haves

15+ years of mechanical design engineering experience, or a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with equivalent experience.
Recent 5+ years using Pro-E/CREO or Schematic / PCB Layout Design.
Specialization in the design and analysis of electronics enclosures, with experience in PC, server, or similar product platforms.

Responsibilities

Establish mechanical product requirements, engineer products to meet them, and validate that requirements are met.
Develop innovative mechanical solutions for PCs, particularly notebooks, with internal development teams, suppliers, and development partners.
Ensure products meet targets for quality, feature set, cost, schedule, reliability, acoustics, regulatory compliance, and safety.
Own mechanical architecture and component- and system-level specifications.
Create and direct CAD models, interpret test data, and report project status for assigned projects.
Drive external suppliers and development partners to deliver robust mechanical solutions.
Provide technical expertise and engineering leadership to influence future mobile product design, with a focus on the front-end design cycle.
Collaborate with Marketing and internal teams to define product requirements and generate customer-focused design concepts.
Lead cross-functional technical decisions across industrial design, usability, quality, and reliability.
Develop and communicate design concepts using 3D CAD tools, and direct design enablement with external development partners (ODMs).
Partner with technology providers to identify innovation opportunities, assess risks, ensure implementation readiness, and generate intellectual property.