Technical Staff, Platform Architect

Dell Technologies•Round Rock, TX

22h

About The Position

The Technical Staff, Platform Architect will join Dell Technologies’ Engineering Technologist team in Round Rock, Texas, helping shape next-generation AI infrastructure and related products. The role covers accelerated compute, AI fabrics, AI-optimized storage, liquid cooling, and high-density power solutions. The architect works with customers and external partners to develop and optimize software and hardware architectures that meet workload, datacenter, and business requirements. The position involves advising on AI model selection and architectural trade-offs, planning and documenting AI solution implementations, and tuning enterprise clusters for training and inference workloads. It also contributes to product strategy and multi-year roadmaps, technology reviews, industry forums, and intellectual property. The role requires customer travel of 20%–30%.

Requirements

Ability to drive model selection and advise on architectural trade-offs and their implications for customer-targeted outcomes.
Deep knowledge of open-source and commercial AI workflow applications and their implications across compute, network, and storage.
Ability to deliver comprehensive plans and documentation for building and implementing AI solutions for stated business needs.
Working experience with enterprise cluster deployments and AI workflows for training and inference use cases.
Solid understanding of computer architecture, including CPUs, accelerators, networking, storage, and benchmarking methodologies.
Experience identifying, developing, and communicating differentiation opportunities and making recommendations to marketing, procurement, engineering, customers, and business executives.
Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions.
Ability to travel 20%–30%.

Nice To Haves

Master’s, PhD, or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Participate in the development of next-generation large-scale AI infrastructure, including accelerated compute, AI fabric, and AI-optimized storage.
Engage with high-profile AI customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune systems for maximum performance.
Drive datacenter-level innovation in liquid cooling technologies and power density.
Guide AI software and hardware designs based on customer requirements and infrastructure needs.
Address business outcomes with AI guidance across software and hardware options that scale to datacenter and business requirements.
Optimize software and hardware configurations to maximize the performance and efficiency of datacenter components.
Work with external partners to create differentiated solutions and develop architectures that integrate with enterprise datacenter frameworks and applications.
Engage with customers and partners to drive innovation at workload, platform, and datacenter levels, provide expertise across AI technologies, and shape future products.
Participate in strategic internal and industry forums, serve as an escalation point for critical development issues, and generate intellectual property, including invention disclosures.
Maintain multi-year roadmaps documenting feature trade-offs and hold technology reviews to align roadmaps with Dell business objectives.
Assess customer requirements and develop solution blueprints through travel.