Senior System Development Engineer - AI Technologies at Dell Careers

Senior 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 Senior Systems Development Engineer on our Systems Development Engineering Team in Austin, Texas.

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

You will:

• System Platform Engineering:

  Lead bring-up, configuration, and validation of system platforms supporting AI workloads (servers, GPU racks, accelerators, networking fabrics); w

  ork with BIOS/UEFI, BMC, firmware, drivers, and kernel subsystems to ensure system readiness for large-scale AI deployments; p

  erform hardware-software co-validation of CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, NICs, accelerators, and memory subsystems under AI-heavy workloads; v

  alidate PCIe fabric behavior, NUMA topology, and data-path efficiency for model training and inference.

• System Debugging & Hardware-Software Interaction

  Diagnose complex issues across BIOS, firmware, OS, driver stack, container runtime, orchestration layer, and AI frameworks; a

  nalyze system logs, kernel traces, hardware event telemetry, GPU health signals, and fabric diagnostics; c

  onduct root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, training failures, model divergence, and hardware stability issues;

  c

  ollaborate with silicon, firmware, OS, and AI software teams to resolve issues rapidly.

• AI Cluster & Rack-Level Operations:

  Deploy and manage AI clusters: GPU servers, accelerators, high-speed networking (InfiniBand, RoCE), and storage systems; v

  alidate cluster readiness for distributed training, including bandwidth, latency, topology checks, and gradient-sync performance; w

  ork with orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, Docker, Singularity) to run and optimize AI pipelines; p

  artner with data center teams for rack integration, power/thermal analysis, and capacity planning

• AI Benchmarking & Performance Analysis:

  Execute and analyze standard AI benchmarks (MLPerf Training, MLPerf Inference, SPEC AI Benchmarks); b

  uild custom benchmarks for transformer models, LLMs, computer vision, multimodal models, and recommendation systems; i

  nterpret results to provide optimization recommendations at the hardware, OS, driver, and framework levels; d

  ocument findings and drive improvements across the platform and AI software ecosystem.

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

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in

  Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

  , or related field

• 5+ years

  of experience in system engineering, platform development, or hardware-software validation

• Strong understanding of

  system architectureCPU/GPU/accelerator internals

  , memory systems, and I/O subsystems

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $123k - $170k.

Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies

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Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That's why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we're looking for you.

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