Technical Staff, Platform Architect
About The Position
The Technical Staff-Platform Architect joins Dell Technologies’ Engineering Technologist team in Round Rock, Texas, within the Infrastructure Solutions Group. The role contributes to next-generation, large-scale AI infrastructure spanning accelerated compute, AI fabric, and AI-optimized storage. It 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 develops AI software and hardware designs based on customer requirements and business outcomes, optimizes configurations for performance and efficiency, and creates solution architectures that integrate with enterprise data-center frameworks and applications. The role also advises on AI technologies and architectural trade-offs, contributes to product direction and multi-year roadmaps, participates in strategic forums, escalates critical development issues, and generates intellectual property such as invention disclosures. Travel of 20%–30% is needed to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints.
Requirements
- Ability to drive model selection and advise on architectural trade-offs and their implications for customer outcomes, with deep knowledge of open-source and commercial AI workflow applications and their implications across compute, network, and storage.
- Ability to deliver a comprehensive plan and documentation for building and implementing AI solutions for stated business needs.
- Working experience with enterprise cluster deployments and AI workflows for training and inferencing 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% 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, addressing business outcomes across scalable software and hardware options.
- Optimize software and hardware configurations to maximize the performance and efficiency of data-center components.
- Work with external partners to create differentiated solutions and develop software and hardware architectures that integrate 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, serve as an escalation point for critical development issues, and generate intellectual property, including invention disclosures.
- Maintain multi-year roadmaps that detail feature trade-offs and hold technology reviews to align roadmaps with Dell business objectives.
- Assess customer requirements and develop blueprints through customer travel.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
