Senior AI-Driven Storage Architect

Dell Technologies Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies' Infrastructure Solutions Group is seeking a Technical Staff-Storage Architect to shape AI-ready storage architectures for large-scale deployments. You will lead with customers, design scalable file/object storage, and drive integration across software, compute, and data security.

Join a team that rewrites the rules of infrastructure, collaborates with ISVs, and pushes storage beyond conventional limits. Travel up to 20-30% to partner with customers and vendors across the globe.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in storage architecture and large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in scale-out storage and file systems (NFS/S3).
• Experience with AI/ML workflows and data pipelines.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Willingness to travel 20–30%.

Responsibilities

• Define architectures for AI-optimized storage and data management.
• Interface with enterprise customers to translate requirements into comprehensive designs.
• Influence end-to-end AI infrastructure stacks across software, compute, storage, and networking.
• Develop configurations and BOMs, collaborating with Engineering and partners.
• Lead investigations into new fabrics and storage platforms and act as escalation point for complex challenges.
• Contribute to IP generation and multi-year technology roadmaps.

Skills

Storage architecture

AI/ML workflows

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

NFS/S3

Erasure coding

Deduplication

Encryption

Tiering

Backup

Versioning

Python

Bash

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Python

Bash

Linux

Job description

Dell Technologies' Infrastructure Solutions Group is seeking a Technical Staff-Storage Architect to shape AI-ready storage architectures for large-scale deployments. You will lead with customers, design scalable file/object storage, and drive integration across software, compute, and data security.

Join a team that rewrites the rules of infrastructure, collaborates with ISVs, and pushes storage beyond conventional limits. Travel up to 20-30% to partner with customers and vendors across the globe.