Software Engineer 1 - IT

As a part of the IT Development Program, you’ll experience rotations during your first two years in Dell IT. This rotation program is designed to provide broad exposure across different technology teams while helping you build the skills needed for a successful long-term career.

During the program, you will complete two one-year rotations before being placed in your final role upon graduation from the program.

You will be matched to teams based on:

• Your technical skills and demonstrated capabilities
• Your career interests and desired learning path
• Team preferences identified through networking and exploration
• Business priorities and manager selection processes

Throughout your rotations, you’ll contribute to delivering business outcomes through modern software engineering, AI-powered solutions, data-driven decision making, and scalable enterprise platforms

Career Journeys in ITDP Rotation Program

• Software Engineering
• AI Engineering

Depending on business needs, your day-to-day role may include:

• Develop and deploy AI-powered applications, assistants, agents, and intelligent workflows
• Build scalable software solutions using cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices
• Design and implement integrations across enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, and AI services
• Contribute to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and automation solutions that improve business productivity
• Partners with architects, product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Apply responsible AI, security, privacy, and governance principles throughout the development lifecycle
• Participate in CI/CD, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence practices to ensure reliable and scalable solutions
• Use data and experimentation to improve customer and employee experience
• Learn emerging technologies quickly and apply them to real-world business challenges

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or Machine Learning
• Foundation in software engineering principles, including object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, testing, and system design
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C++
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying AI-powered applications, including work with generative AI, LLMs, AI assistants, agents, prompt engineering, or RAG solutions
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems, communicate effectively, collaborate across teams, and deliver measurable results with accountability, * Demonstrates curiosity and continuous learning, especially in emerging technologies and AI innovation
• Takes ownership and accountability for delivering meaningful outcomes
• Collaborate effectively across teams, disciplines, and geographies
• Adapts quickly to changing priorities and evolving business needs
• Uses good judgment and embraces responsibility, ethical technology practices
• Balances experimentation and innovation with operational excellence

Desirable Requirements

• Demonstrated experience developing AI-powered solutions using modern AI/ML frameworks, including assistants, agents, workflow automation, and recommendation systems
• Knowledge of cloud and software engineering practices, including APIs, microservices, containers, CI/CD, data platforms, and evidence of applied innovation through projects, research, open source, or technical competitions

• Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary for this position is $89,520 USD annually

Dell IT is looking for a new kind of campus hire: AI-Native Engineers ready to make an accelerated impact from day one. As part of the IT Development Program (ITDP), you’ll rotate across high-priority teams, partnering with experienced engineers, architects, data scientists, and product leaders to build intelligent solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. We are seeking recent graduates who combine strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience applying Generative AI technologies such as copilots, AI agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to solve real-world problems.

At Dell Technologies, we invest in the development of our early career talent through the IT Development Program (ITDP). Participants gain exposure to real-world business challenges, rotational experiences across multiple teams, direct mentorship from technology leaders, and opportunities to build innovative solutions that support Dell’s digital transformation.

Throughout the program, participants develop technical expertise, business acumen, leadership capabilities, and a strong network across Dell IT. With opportunities spanning software engineering, AI, data, cloud platforms, and infrastructure participants can shape a career aligned to both their interests and business priorities., 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.

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.

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