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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Development & Agent Ops - Senior Principal Software Engineer - **Company:** Dell Technologies Inc. - **Location:** Hopkinton, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $196,000.0 - $269,500.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Application Frameworks, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Programming Tools, Metadata, Systems Development Life Cycle, Release Management, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Software Organization, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models - **Published:** July 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27877059/Ai-Development-Agent-Ops-Senior-Principal-Software-Engineer-Massachusetts-Hopkinton-1312 ## About the Role * 10+ years in a software engineering role. * Deep hands-on familiarity with modern software development practices - CI/CD, DevOps, developer tooling - and a strong working knowledge of the current AI/agentic development landscape. * Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems, structure them, and deliver concrete outputs: analyses, prototypes, specifications, or frameworks. * Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, and infrastructure stakeholders. * Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to translate technical complexity into clear documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences. Desirable Requirements * Direct, hands-on experience with agentic development tools and platforms (e.g., Windsurf/Codeium, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent). * Familiarity with MCP ecosystems, LLM token economics, and AI governance frameworks at enterprise scale. * Experience in a large enterprise environment with gated release cycles, compliance requirements, and non-negotiable human oversight needs. * Background in developer experience, platform engineering, or internal developer tooling. * Experience building dashboards, measurement frameworks, or data instrumentation for developer productivity. * Comfort operating in ambiguity: defining structures and processes where few exist, and creating clarity without waiting for it. ## Description As a Senior Principal Software Engineer - AI Development & Agent Ops, you will be responsible for designing, building, and refining the services, platforms, and practices that enable ~9,000 engineers to develop with AI agents at scale. You will work with product, architecture, security, and engineering teams on Dell's agentic SDLC transformation - operating at the frontier of what it means to build software with AI. You will: * Engineer and operate the agentic harness including CI/CD integrations, pipeline quality gates, orchestration capabilities, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that support end-to-end agent workflows. * Develop and manage the agent lifecycle framework, including agent versioning, testing, validation, compliance reviews, deployment processes, and release management within the enterprise agent registry. * Build and maintain shared services, reusable frameworks, developer tooling, and cross-platform integrations that accelerate adoption and ensure consistency across product and engineering teams. * Define, implement, and maintain technical standards for knowledge base content, metadata, structure, and accessibility to ensure high-quality inputs for agentic systems and workflows. * Drive engineering best practices across the agentic ecosystem - including automation, testing, observability, reliability, and continuous improvement of platform performance and developer experience. ## Related Videos - [Building the next generation of AI developer tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100069-building-the-next-generation-of-ai-developer-tools) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [AI Pair Programming with GitHub Copilot at SAP: Looking Back, Looking Forward!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1546-ai-pair-programming-with-github-copilot-at-sap-looking-back-looking-forward) - [Agentic DevOps: How AI-Powered Automation Transforms Software Delivery on GitHub and Azure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1539-agentic-devops-how-ai-powered-automation-transforms-software-delivery-on-github-and-azure) - [AI Killed DevOps... 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