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Principal System Development Engineer - Data Center Validation
Join us as a Principal System Development Engineer on our Data Center Solutions Engineering team in Austin, TX to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.
What you'll achieve
As a Principal System Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building automation platforms that validate data center rack infrastructure at scale. You will work with hardware engineers, site deployment teams, and AI/ML infrastructure customers on tools that orchestrate Day 0 validation of servers, GPUs, networking, and power systems before they enter production.
This is a high-impact role where your software directly determines whether racks ship on time and work correctly. You will build workflow orchestration systems, agent-based automation, and developer tooling that runs in air-gapped data center environments across the globe.
You will
Design and develop workflow orchestration platforms using technologies such as Temporal, FastAPI, and React to automate multi-phase hardware validation across servers, switches, PDUs, and accelerators
Build AI-agent-driven development tooling and automation -- leveraging LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent architectures to accelerate test development, diagnostics, and root cause analysis
Develop and maintain containerized test execution pipelines that run on Kubernetes (RKE2) and HPC schedulers (Slurm) in air-gapped, on-premise environments
Integrate with hardware management interfaces (Redfish/IPMI, gNMI, SNMP) to automate device discovery, firmware updates, BIOS configuration, and health monitoring
Collaborate with field deployment teams to ensure software is reliable, operator-friendly, and functions without internet connectivity at customer sites
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
8+ years of software development experience with Python; proficiency with REST APIs, async programming, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience building distributed systems or workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, Argo, or similar) with an understanding of reliability patterns such as retries, sagas, and compensation
Familiarity with Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals (VLANs, DHCP, DNS, SSH), and command-line tooling in server/data center environments
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted or agent-first development practices -- using LLM-based coding tools, building AI agents, or integrating generative AI into engineering workflows
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Desirable Requirements
Experience with HPC workload managers (Slurm, PBS), bare-metal server management (Redfish, IPMI, PXE boot), or GPU/accelerator infrastructure (NVIDIA CUDA, NVLink, InfiniBand)
Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), GitOps practices, or Rancher/RKE2 in air-gapped deployments
Compensation
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $157,250-$203,500.
Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies
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