Principal Systems Engineer

Dell Technologies; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 157,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Systems Development Engineer

Location

Round Rock TX

Our customers’ system requirements are usually highly complex. Bringing together hardware and software systems design, Systems Development Engineering operates at the very cutting edge of technology to meet them. We design and develop electronic and electro-mechanical or systems-orientated products, conduct feasibility studies on engineering proposals and prepare installation, operation and maintenance specifications and instructions. We’re proud to deliver programs and products to the highest quality standards, on time and within budget.

What you’ll achieve

As a Principal Systems Development Engineer, you will architect, design, and implement complex embedded system and platform-level solutions for Dell's enterprise products. Our team drives innovative, board-level, and SoC-level platform architectures. Delivering detailed designs and specifications that span system control hardware, firmware, and system embedded software, while enabling scalable design methodologies across product lines.

You will:

• Define and develop internal system control architectures including board-level interfaces, bus topologies, and hardware-firmware integration points across extended teams
• Create design and architectural documentation for embedded platform features, defining innovative technologies for next-generation system-on-chip, board, and subsystem designs.
• Design, develop, and implement efficient and scalable embedded design methods spanning silicon, firmware, BIOS/BMC, FPGA, and hardware abstraction layers, including security features for servers.
• Develop bring-up and validation strategies, create prototypes, write low-level test and diagnostic software, and debug new features on next-generation platforms

Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• 8 to 12 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree or 6+ years with a master's degree
• Strong understanding of computer systems,embedded computer architecture, including processor subsystems, BMC subsystems, peripheral interfaces (PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB), and power management
• Demonstrated experience with hardware-firmware-software co-design and the ability to debug and resolve issues across abstraction layers
• Familiarity with schematic review, signal integrity concepts, or board-level design collaboration
• Familiarity with embedded firmware, BIOS/UEFI, BMC, FPGA, or device driver development and familiarity with lab instrumentation (logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers) for system debug

Desirable Requirements

• Strong communication skills with an ability to lead a workgroup as well as capability to influence others to achieve results
• Experience with platform boot flows, system initialization, HW/FW security, or operating systems

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $157,250 - $203,500

Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies

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Here’s our story; now tell us yours

Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build a brighter digital tomorrow. Our company is made up of more than 150,000 people, located in over 180 locations around the world. We’re proud to be a diverse and inclusive team and have an endless passion for our mission to drive human progress.

What’s most important to us is that you are respected, feel like you can be yourself and have the opportunity to do the best work of your life -- while still having a life. We offer excellent benefits, bonus programs, flexible work arrangements, a variety of career development opportunities, employee resource groups, and much more.

We started with computers, but we didn’t stop there. We are helping customers move into the future with multi-cloud, AI and machine learning through the most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. Join us and become a part of what’s next in technology, starting today.

You can also learn more about us by reading our latest Diversity and Inclusion Report and our plan to make the world a better place by 2030 here.

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