Software Principal Engineer

Join us as a Software Principal Engineer in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What you’ll achieve

Design, develop, and integrate embedded firmware for enterprise server system management subsystems, delivering scalable, high-performance, and secure solutions

You will:

• Embed security across the firmware lifecycle by translating security, risk, and compliance requirements into architecture, designs, implementation plans, and validation strategies
• Lead firmware integration across multiple hardware generations while driving Agile execution through sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, and delivery
• Perform advanced system-level debugging and root cause analysis to resolve customer, manufacturing, and pre-production issues, improving firmware quality, security, and resilience
• Establish and promote best practices in secure firmware development, automated validation, and continuous process improvement to enhance code quality, developer productivity, system reliability, and infrastructure security

If you’re energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what’s next instead of simply maintaining what’s been done before, you’ll find your place here., * Firmware and embedded systems development with strong proficiency in C/C++ programming

• Experience developing and supporting Linux-based platforms and embedded environments
• Deep understanding of hardware/software architecture, system interactions, and platform management technologies (OpenBMC, IPMI, Redfish, I2C)
• Expertise in software engineering best practices, testing, validation, Agile development, and tools such as Yocto, BitBake, JIRA, and AI-assisted development platforms (Claude/Devin)
• Strong system-level debugging, troubleshooting, and security-focused development experience

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $182k - $236k.

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) builds the products that power infrastructure, solutions, and data management our customers need most. Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.

Some product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.

Within ISG, innovation isn’t just about creating new technology- it’s about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers’ trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.

We move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren’t looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.