Technical Staff, Engineering Technologist

Dell Technologies • Round Rock, TX

20d

About The Position

Join Dell Technologies’ Engineering Technologist team in Round Rock, Texas, and help develop next-generation datacenter infrastructure, with a focus on modular liquid-cooling technologies and power density. The role engages with high-profile customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune systems for maximum performance. It drives datacenter-level innovation across components such as CDU, cold plates, manifolds, racks, and skids.

The Engineering Technologist team works across applied research and advanced engineering to shape products, materials, and processes. Its work includes assessing competitors, developing technology and product strategies, generating intellectual property, leading technology investigations, analyzing industry capabilities, and recommending potential acquisitions or vendor partnerships. Its insights influence product architecture and definitions, in collaboration with colleagues across the business.

The position develops customer-driven hardware designs and end-to-end modular datacenter hardware architectures, addressing liquid cooling and other mechanical engineering needs at scale. It defines efficient, high-performance hardware topologies, optimizes hardware configurations, works with external partners on differentiated solutions, and develops architectures that integrate with datacenter frameworks and applications. The role requires 15 or more years of applicable industry experience or equivalent skill and 20%–30% travel.

Requirements

• 15+ years of applicable industry experience or equivalent skill.
• Expert understanding of mechanical engineering technologies related to datacenter components such as CDU, cold plates, manifolds, racks, and skids.
• Proficiency using tools such as Creo.
• Experience with modular datacenter hardware design and liquid-cooling solutions.
• Knowledge of mechanical engineering industry standards.
• Customer and partner project/program leadership experience.
• Ability to understand and assess customer requirements, develop technical solutions based on customers’ geographical areas, negotiate conflicting interests, and prioritize deliverables to achieve the best possible outcome for stakeholders.
• Ability to travel 20%–30%.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s, PhD, or Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
• Relationships with key suppliers of networking products.

Responsibilities

• Drive hardware design based on customer requirements and required infrastructure.
• Address liquid-cooling solutions and other mechanical engineering aspects that scale with datacenter requirements.
• Define hardware topologies optimized for efficiency and performance.
• Lead development of end-to-end modular datacenter hardware architecture, including CDU, cold plates, manifolds, racks, and skids.
• Optimize hardware configurations to maximize datacenter component performance and efficiency.
• Work closely with key external partners to create differentiated solutions.
• Develop hardware solutions and architecture that integrate with datacenter frameworks and applications.
• Engage with customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune systems for maximum performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed