Technical Staff, Platform Architect

Dell Technologies • Santa Clara, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Technical Staff, Platform Architect will join Dell Technologies’ Engineering Technologist team in Santa Clara, California, developing next-generation large-scale AI infrastructure, including accelerated compute, AI Fabric, and AI-optimized storage. The role works with high-profile AI customers and partners to optimize solutions for their applications, tune systems for performance, and drive data-center innovation involving liquid cooling and power density.

The architect defines AI software and hardware designs based on customer requirements and business outcomes, advises on infrastructure options that scale to data-center and business needs, and optimizes configurations for performance and efficiency. The role also develops differentiated software and hardware architectures that integrate with enterprise data-center frameworks and applications, contributes expertise and input to future products, maintains multi-year roadmaps, and participates in internal and industry forums. The position serves as an escalation point for critical development issues and generates intellectual property, including invention disclosures.

Requirements

• Ability to drive model selection and advise on architectural trade-offs and their implications for customer 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 providing recommendations to marketing, procurement, engineering, customers, and business executives.
• Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions.
• Ability to travel 20%–30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Develop AI software and hardware designs based on customer requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Address business outcome requirements by advising on software and hardware options that scale to data-center and business requirements.
• Optimize software and hardware configurations to maximize data-center component performance and efficiency.
• Work with external partners to create differentiated solutions and develop architectures integrated with enterprise data-center frameworks and applications.
• Engage with high-profile partners and customers to drive innovation at the workload, platform, and data-center levels; provide expertise on AI technologies and help shape future products.
• Participate in strategic internal and industry forums, act as an escalation point for critical development issues, and generate intellectual property, including invention disclosures.
• Maintain multi-year roadmaps detailing feature trade-offs and conduct regular technology reviews to align roadmaps with Dell business objectives.
• Assess customer requirements and develop solution blueprints; travel as needed.

What This Job Offers

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