Technical Staff, Thermal Architect

Dell; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies is seeking a Technical Staff — Data Center Thermal Architect for its Austin, Texas team. This role focuses on designing and guiding end-to-end Thermal architectures for AI-enabled data centers, including air and liquid cooling, power distribution, and rack solutions.

You will collaborate with customers and ODMs to translate requirements into robust hardware strategies. You will drive architectures that optimize performance, energy efficiency, and cost, while aligning with

Qualifications

• Experience collaborating with customers on architectural requirements.
• Advanced knowledge of heat transfer and cooling technologies.
• Solid understanding of data center power and thermal components.
• Ability to travel 20%-30%.
• Experience working with ODMs on mechanical/thermal/electrical design.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end architecture from server to data center, including air and liquid cooled servers and rack solutions.
• Innovate power-centric IT solutions for dense environments.
• Optimize cost, energy efficiency and performance from IT to data center.
• Engage with high-profile AI customers to optimize solutions and tuning.
• Define hardware topologies optimized for AI workloads.

Skills

Heat transfer

Thermal management

Customer collaboration

Power distribution

AI workloads

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Technical Staff, Data Center Thermal Architect

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.

From applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities and recommend potential acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. And we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way.

Responsible for applied research or advanced engineering in the development of new products, materials, or processes. Responsibilities include the assimilation and understanding of the industry and competitive environment for a given technology or product line, and the derivation of a technology/product strategy from this information. Leads technology investigations, performs a strategic analysis of the industry capabilities, and develops recommendations, which influence the technical product strategy and/or definition of products for a given product line, including evaluation of potential acquisitions and vendor partner opportunities. Engages design teams, systems engineering, marketing teams, suppliers, and business unit leaders and executives to ensure the strategy or product architecture meets Dell’s requirement of product leadership for the given technology area or product line.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff – Data Center Thermal Architecton our Engineering Technologist Team in Austin, Texas.

What you’ll achieve

As a Technical Staff, Data Center Thermal Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale AI Infrastructure including accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies. As part of an advanced technology pod, you will define long-term technology strategies utilizing information from CTO, marketing, development, manufacturing, procurement, customers and industry

You will:

• Be responsible for driving the architecture of end-to-end solutions from server to data center, including air and liquid cooled servers, integrated rack solutions, power distribution and heat rejection
• Innovate power-centric solutions for increasingly dense IT environments
• Optimize cost, energy efficiency and performance from IT to the datacenter
• Engage with high profile AI customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune the system for maximum performance.
• Develop solution Overview and validate with Engineering
• Propose BOM/ SKUs to meet technical requirements and review with Engineering & shape the offer accordingly
• Design Air, Liquid and other cooling solutions based on Datacenter and customer requirements
• Drive hardware design based on customer requirements and required infrastructure. Address liquid cooling solutions and other platform engineering aspects that scale based on datacenter requirements.
• Define hardware topologies that are optimized for efficiency and performance for AI workloads.

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

• Experience collaborating with customers on architectural and design requirements spanning IT Systems to Datacenter Thermal technologies
• Advanced working knowledge of heat transfer and the ability to analyze component /system level problems and apply advanced cooling technologies
• Solid understanding and knowledge of and relationships with key suppliers of data center power and thermal management components
• Ability to collaborate with Dell’s technology partners and supply base on cutting edge technology development and work with ODMs on mechanical, thermal & electrical aspects of system design
• Understanding of the competitive and business needs while developing technical solutions including knowledge of manufacturing processes and the tolerance control requirements for high volume production environments, and author architecture specification to be a guiding light for development of future products.
• Experience interfacing effectively with suppliers to ensure they are both doing research and providing information on products or services that have value to the company, instigating and coordinating these efforts as necessary on a continual basis
• Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions; need to be able to travel 20%-30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints.

Desirable Requirements

15 + years of related experience. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on thermal science, fluid dynamics and/or heat transfer for data center implementations. Years of experience offset with an advanced degree