Principal Systems Development Engineer

What you’ll achieve

As a Principal System Development Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building automation platforms that validate data center rack infrastructure at scale. You will work with hardware engineers, site deployment teams, and AI/ML infrastructure customers on tools that orchestrate Day 0 validation of servers, GPUs, networking, and power systems before they enter production.

This is a high-impact role where your software directly determines whether racks ship on time and work correctly. You will build workflow orchestration systems, agent-based automation, and developer tooling that runs in air-gapped data center environments across the globe.

You will:

• Design and develop workflow orchestration platforms using technologies such as Temporal, FastAPI, and React to automate multi-phase hardware validation across servers, switches, PDUs, and accelerators
• Build AI-agent-driven development tooling and automation – leveraging LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multi-agent architectures to accelerate test development, diagnostics, and root cause analysis
• Develop and maintain containerized test execution pipelines that run on Kubernetes (RKE2) and HPC schedulers (Slurm) in air-gapped, on-premise environments
• Integrate with hardware management interfaces (Redfish/IPMI, gNMI, SNMP) to automate device discovery, firmware updates, BIOS configuration, and health monitoring
• Collaborate with field deployment teams to ensure software is reliable, operator-friendly, and functions without internet connectivity at customer sites

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., * 8+ years of software development experience with Python; proficiency with REST APIs, async programming, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience building distributed systems or workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, Argo, or similar) with an understanding of reliability patterns such as retries, sagas, and compensation
• Familiarity with Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals (VLANs, DHCP, DNS, SSH), and command-line tooling in server/data center environments
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted or agent-first development practices – using LLM-based coding tools, building AI agents, or integrating generative AI into engineering workflows
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with HPC workload managers (Slurm, PBS), bare-metal server management (Redfish, IPMI, PXE boot), or GPU/accelerator infrastructure (NVIDIA CUDA, NVLink, InfiniBand)
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), GitOps practices, or Rancher/RKE2 in air-gapped deployments

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $157,250-$203,500.

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