Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer-Data Center Custom Solutions

Dell Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Dell Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer for Data Center Custom Solutions. You will own complex mechanical designs, perform analyses, feasibility studies, and testing, and coordinate with manufacturing to resolve build issues. Relocation assistance is provided for candidates nationwide.

Position locations include Austin, Texas or Hopkinton, Massachusetts, with potential relocation support and the chance to shape next-generation data-center hardware and packaging.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex mechanical design projects.
• Ability to coordinate with manufacturing and resolve build issues.
• Experience conducting analyses, feasibility studies, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Own complex mechanical designs and coordinate with manufacturing.
• Prepare test plans to validate function, reliability, and compliance.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Complex designs

Analyses & testing

Job description

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG)builds the products that power infrastructure, solutions, and data management our customers need most. Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.

Some product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.

Within ISG, innovation isn't just about creating new technology- it's about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers' trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.

We move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren't looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.

If you're energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what's next instead of simply maintaining what's been done before, you'll find your place here.

Join us and help build the future of enterprise technology.

Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer-Data Center Custom Solutions

Mechanical Engineering leads and delivers the development of innovative and compliant mechanical design solutions. Our team conducts the analysis, feasibility studies and testing of mechanical products, instruments,subassembliesand packaging for new and existing products – and then oversees the introduction of design changes to the manufacturing organizations.

Whatyou’llachieve:

As aSenior Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will own complex mechanical designs, conduct detailed analyses, and prepare test plans tovalidatefunction, reliability, and compliance. You will coordinate with manufacturing and resolve build issues.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact asaSenior Principal Mechanical Engineeron ourMechanical Engineeringteam in Austin, Texas or Hopkinton, Massachusetts (relocation assistance provided).