Principal Systems Development Engineer

Principal Systems Development Engineer

Our customers’ system requirements are usually highly complex. Bringing together hardware and software systems design, Systems Development Engineering operates at the very cutting edge of technology to meet them. We design and develop electronic and electro-mechanical or systems-orientated products, conduct feasibility studies on engineering proposals and prepare installation, operation and maintenance specifications and instructions. We’re proud to deliver programs and products to the highest quality standards, on time and within budget.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Principal Systems Development Engineer on our Solutions/Server Performance Analysis team in Round Rock, Texas.

What you’ll achieve
As a Principal Systems Development Engineer, you will design, define and implement complex system requirements for customers and prepare studies and analyses of existing systems.

You will:

• Perform the measurement and analysis of subsystem performance for Dell products, with an emphasis on the server subsystem: processor configurations, chipsets, memory subsystems.

• Perform targeted studies to obtain optimal performance of a given solution (hardware and software configuration), write technical reports/whitepapers that summarize the solution's performance and isolate issues (bottlenecks) in the solution and obtain assistance from peers, or internal/external teams to eliminate or mitigate these bottlenecks

• Review future designs for possible bottlenecks; work with engineering to consider changes where performance could be negatively impacted by design decisions.

• Maintain a broad knowledge of performance bottlenecks and potential performance impacts on the various benchmarks being tracked by the performance team and work with the performance architects to provide raw data to facilitate performance predictions on new products.

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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 to 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree or 6+ years with a master’s degree

• Experience in performance engineering, AI/ML systems, HPC, data center platforms, or accelerator‑based computing

• Advanced understanding of appropriate system architectures

• Deep knowledge of hardware and software interactions, and the ability to apply this understanding to resolve issues

• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor team members

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with MLPerf Training/Inference performance measurement

• Knowledge of distributed training frameworks such as NCCL, RCCL, MPI, and large‑scale cluster architecture

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $157,250.00 - $203,500.00.

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