Principal Test Engineer, Enterprise Lab & Infrastructure

Dell Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Competitive compensation

MyDell portal access

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Austin, TX, seeks a Test Principal Engineer to lead a critical validation lab for enterprise programs. You will own daily operations, future planning, and cross‑functional coordination across facilities, security, procurement, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities include asset management, network design, and capital planning to ensure secure, scalable lab infrastructure aligned with product needs. Competitive compensation is offered in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience managing or supporting engineering, validation, test, or data center laboratory environments.
• Strong understanding of power delivery systems and infrastructure requirements for modern enterprise server environments.
• Familiarity with liquid cooling technologies and associated operational considerations for server platforms.
• Working knowledge of networking concepts and technologies, including IP addressing, MAC addressing, Subnetting, VLAN design and administration, Ethernet switching, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience coordinating with facilities, engineering, security, procurement, and external vendors.
• Strong organizational, project management, and budgeting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations and long-term planning for a server validation laboratory supporting enterprise technology programs.
• Partner with Facilities to define and implement lab requirements for power delivery, cooling, environmental monitoring, and network capacity planning.
• Manage inventory of lab infrastructure assets including servers, storage, networking gear, racks, and power equipment.
• Develop asset tracking, lifecycle management, utilization reporting, and capacity planning processes.
• Review product specifications to ensure lab infrastructure supports future validation needs.
• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot lab networking including VLANs, switches, and access controls.
• Collaborate with Information Security to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and ensure policy compliance.
• Oversee CapEx planning, budgeting, tracking, and reporting of capital investments.
• Coordinate procurement and vendor sourcing for hardware and infrastructure.
• Lead infrastructure deployments, upgrades, and expansions with minimal disruption, driving continuous improvement.

Skills

Server lab operations

Power & cooling

Networking basics

Project management

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

or related discipline

Tools

Asset management systems

Inventory tracking tools

CapEx planning tools

Networking hardware

Job description

Dell Technologies in Austin, TX, seeks a Test Principal Engineer to lead a critical validation lab for enterprise programs. You will own daily operations, future planning, and cross‑functional coordination across facilities, security, procurement, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities include asset management, network design, and capital planning to ensure secure, scalable lab infrastructure aligned with product needs. Competitive compensation is offered in a collaborative environment.