Technical Staff-Storage Architect
About The Position
From applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities and recommend potential acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. And we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff-Storage Architect on our Engineering Technologist Team in Santa Clara, California.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in storage architecture, data platforms, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise in scale-out file/object storage, parallel filesystems, and key storage concepts (NFS/S3, erasure coding, deduplication, encryption, tiering, backup, versioning).
- Deep understanding of AI/ML workflows, data pipelines, training/inference patterns, data analytics, Vector DB, KV Cache and enterprise cluster deployments and ability to collaborate with ISVs on data management and AI workflow integration.
- Strong ability to define storage configurations to meet production grade performance and SLA requirements.
- Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to cross functional teams and senior leaders.
- Demonstrated experience working with industry vendors to influence next generation technology design.
- Ability to translate business outcomes into practical, scalable technical architectures.
- Willingness to travel 20–30%.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of AI/ML or HPC performance engineering, including benchmarking and scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) on Linux and hands-on experience with datacenter technologies, including fabrics, cooling, telemetry, or cluster orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical leader interfacing with enterprise customers to define architectures, understand workload requirements, and translate them into comprehensive solution designs.
- Architect AI-optimized storage and data management solutions integrating optimized, scale-out file, object, and parallel filesystem SDS technologies.
- Influence end-to-end AI infrastructure stacks—from software frameworks through compute, storage, networking, data security, and datacenter deployment (L10–L12).
- Develop and propose solution configurations, BOMs, and SKUs based on customer needs in collaboration with Engineering and engage with strategic technology partners to co-innovate and build differentiated solutions.
- Lead investigations new fabric technologies, and storage platforms to support large‑scale AI deployments.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for complex development challenges and represent Dell in internal and external architecture forums.
- Generate intellectual property, including invention disclosures and technology strategy insights and influence multi-year technology and product roadmaps with inputs from engineering, manufacturing, procurement, customers, and the broader industry.
Benefits
- Dell is committed to Fair and Equitable compensation practices.
- The Base Salary Range for this role is $264,000 - $342,000
- You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member - right now at MyWellatDell.com
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
