Hardware Senior Principal Engineer

Dell; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Austin, Texas is seeking a Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer to lead the architecture, development, integration, and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms.

You will drive platform innovation, collaborate with silicon vendors, ODMs, and customers, and guide multiple engineering teams to deliver high-performance AI systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience leading electrical hardware engineering, platform architecture, and infrastructure development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server and rack-scale infrastructure.
• Drive platform innovation, reliability, and performance across internal and vendor teams.
• Provide strategic technical leadership across engineering organizations to ensure scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Define PCIe architecture strategy and roadmaps for AI platforms.

Skills

Server and rack-scale architectures

PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6

Memory subsystems (DDR4/DDR5, HBM, RDI

Electrical hardware leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Job description

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) builds the products that power infrastructure, solutions, and data management our customers need most. Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.

Some product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.

Within ISG, innovation isn't just about creating new technology- it's about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers' trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.

We move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren't looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.

If you're energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what's next instead of simply maintaining what's been done before, you'll find your place here.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

Dell Technologies is leading the transformation of AI infrastructure, delivering high-performance, liquid-cooled platforms that power next-generation workloads. Our Emerging Technologies (XE) Engineering organization is focused on Dell's AI server portfolio, L11 rack-scale solutions, and cluster-scale deployments that solve some of the most complex engineering challenges in the industry. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a measurable impact by enabling the design, deployment, and lifecycle success of advanced AI systems at global scale.

Join us as a Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer in Austin, Texas to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What You Will Achieve

• Lead the architecture, development, integration, validation, and lifecycle support of next-generation AI server, storage, networking, and rack-scale infrastructure platforms. Serve as the technical authority for PCI Express, Memory, Power Delivery, and Systems Management technologies across the complete product lifecycle, from concept development through deployment, sustaining engineering, and customer support.
• Drive platform innovation, quality, reliability, and performance while partnering with silicon vendors, ODMs, manufacturing, quality, firmware, systems engineering, and hyperscale customers. Lead critical technical investigations, root-cause analysis, and field escalations while influencing future-generation platform architectures.
• Provide strategic technical leadership across multiple engineering organizations to ensure robust, scalable, serviceable, and highly available infrastructure solutions.
• Lead PCIe architecture strategy and technology roadmaps for AI infrastructure platforms, driving compliance, interoperability, validation, debug, performance optimization, and development standards across current and next-generation solutions.
• Define memory subsystem architectures, validation methodologies, and design requirements, while leading investigations into memory performance, reliability, qualification, and field quality improvements.
• Drive platform and rack-level power architecture development, including power delivery, voltage regulation, sequencing, telemetry, power integrity, and optimization of efficiency, scalability, and resiliency for high-performance AI systems.
• Define systems management and serviceability strategies, leading BMC, telemetry, health monitoring, diagnostics, remote management, observability, and fleet-management capabilities to support deployment and operational excellence.
• Serve as a senior technical leader and subject matter expert, guiding customer escalations, root-cause investigations, executive review.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Essential Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering (or related field) with 15+ years of experience leading electrical hardware engineering, platform architecture, and infrastructure development initiatives.
  • Deep expertise in server and rack-scale electrical architectures, including PCIe Gen4/Gen5/Gen6, memory subsystems (DDR4/DDR5, HBM, RDIMM, MRDIMM), and