Lead Agentic Context Architect & AI Practitioner

Dell Inc.; Hopkinton (MA); On-site; USD 233,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Hopkinton, MA is hiring an Agentic Context Engineering Architect & AI Practitioner to design, build, and operate enterprise AI tooling that accelerates secure software development. You will work with cross-functional teams to implement AI agent workflows, memory patterns, and context retrieval across the development lifecycle.

You will shape scalable architectures, enforce security and governance, and drive continuous improvement in AI tooling usability and reliability for

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering or platform leadership.
• Hands-on AI-assisted development and large language models.
• Expertise in context engineering concepts and retrieval.
• Experience building scalable AI platforms and memory systems.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, and product.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the enterprise AI Harness for secure, scalable AI-assisted software development across engineering organizations.
• Develop context engineering frameworks that optimize how agents acquire, interpret, retrieve, and utilize information throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Architect and maintain context management services, including knowledge ingestion, context assembly, retrieval mechanisms, metadata management, and lifecycle governance for AI agent workflows.
• Design and implement agent memory frameworks, including short-term, long-term, session-based, and persistent memory patterns that improve agent effectiveness, consistency, and task completion accuracy.
• Build and maintain shared services, reusable frameworks, developer tooling, and platform integrations that accelerate AI adoption and ensure consistent agent behavior across engineering teams.
• Partner closely with Product Security, Cybersecurity, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to ensure context retrieval, memory systems, knowledge access, and agent interactions meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
• Drive context optimization strategies including relevance scoring, retrieval quality measurement, context window efficiency, token utilization optimization, and knowledge effectiveness across AI development workflows.
• Define standards and best practices for knowledge structures, metadata, content organization, context accessibility, and information quality to maximize agent performance and trustworthiness.
• Drive engineering excellence across the AI harness ecosystem, including observability, evaluation frameworks, performance measurement, reliability, experimentation, and continuous improvement

Skills

AI-assisted development

LLMs

Agentic systems

RAG architectures

Vector databases

Knowledge systems

Embeddings

Vector search

Memory architectures

Agent orchestration

Tool integration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

OpenAI

Anthropic

Cursor

Windsurf

Job description

Dell Technologies in Hopkinton, MA is hiring an Agentic Context Engineering Architect & AI Practitioner to design, build, and operate enterprise AI tooling that accelerates secure software development. You will work with cross-functional teams to implement AI agent workflows, memory patterns, and context retrieval across the development lifecycle.

You will shape scalable architectures, enforce security and governance, and drive continuous improvement in AI tooling usability and reliability for