Senior Principal AI Engineer

Dell; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 196,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies is seeking a Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer in Austin, Texas to shape the next generation of AI-enabled engineering workflows. You will design scalable, production-ready AI solutions, focusing on LLM reasoning, tool use, and autonomous tasks for software development.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience building agentic AI systems and strong software fundamentals. Collaboration with internal and external partners is central to delivering secure cloud-native AI

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience and hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, production AI agents, or autonomous workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python, automation tooling, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or evaluation frameworks.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to adapt in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-driven engineering workflows using LLMs and autonomous agents
• Steer and validate AI coding agents to improve engineering throughput and code quality
• Develop testing, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks for AI-generated output
• Optimize context management using embeddings, retrieval, and memory strategies
• Partner with teams to deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native AI solutions

Skills

Python

Automation tooling

Kubernetes

LLM-powered systems

AI agents

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Tool calling

RAG

Evaluation frameworks

Job description

Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as an Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer on our Agentic AI Software Engineering Team in Austin, Texas.

RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll achieve

We are seeking a Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer to help shape the future of our intelligent systems and build AI-native engineering systems and autonomous development workflows. This role focuses on designing scalable, production-ready AI solutions where LLMs can reason, use tools, and automate software engineering tasks.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building agentic AI systems, orchestration workflows, and AI-assisted developer tooling.

You will:

• Design and build AI-driven engineering workflows using LLMs and autonomous agents
• Steer and validate AI coding agents to improve engineering throughput and code quality
• Develop testing, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks for AI-generated output
• Optimize context management using embeddings, retrieval, and memory strategies
• Partner with teams to deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native AI solutions

QUALIFICATIONS

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent skill; must include hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, production AI agents, or autonomous workflows
• Strong programming skills in Python, automation tooling, and Kubernetes
• Experience with orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or evaluation frameworks
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to adapt in fast-moving environments

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary range for this position is $196,000 - $269,500.