Dell Technologies is hiring a Senior System Development Engineer – AI Technologies

Dell Technologies is hiring a Senior System Development Engineer – AI Technologies. You will design and implement complex system requirements with a focus on AI technologies. This role involves leading the bring-up, validation, and debugging of system platforms that support demanding AI workloads, including AI clusters and rack-level operations.

What You'll Do

• Lead bring‑up, configuration, and validation of system platforms supporting AI workloads, including servers, GPU racks, accelerators, and networking fabrics.
• Work with BIOS/UEFI, BMC, firmware, drivers, and kernel subsystems to ensure system readiness for large‑scale AI deployments.
• Perform hardware–software co-validation of CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, NICs, accelerators, and memory subsystems under AI‑heavy workloads.
• Validate PCIe fabric behavior, NUMA topology, and data‑path efficiency for model training and inference.
• Diagnose complex issues across BIOS, firmware, OS, driver stack, container runtime, orchestration layer, and AI frameworks.
• Analyze system logs, kernel traces, hardware event telemetry, GPU health signals, and fabric diagnostics.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of performance bottlenecks, training failures, model divergence, and hardware stability issues.
• Collaborate with silicon, firmware, OS, and AI software teams to resolve issues rapidly.
• Deploy and manage AI clusters: GPU servers, accelerators, high‑speed networking (InfiniBand, RoCE), and storage systems.
• Validate cluster readiness for distributed training, including bandwidth, latency, topology checks, and gradient‑sync performance.
• Work with orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, Docker, and Singularity to run and optimize AI pipelines.
• Partner with data center teams for rack integration, power/thermal analysis, and capacity planning.
• Execute and analyze standard AI benchmarks like MLPerf Training, MLPerf Inference, and SPEC AI Benchmarks.
• Build custom benchmarks for transformer models, LLMs, computer vision, multimodal models, and recommendation systems.
• Interpret results to provide optimization recommendations at the hardware, OS, driver, and framework levels.
• Document findings and drive improvements across the platform and AI software ecosystem.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in system engineering, platform development, or hardware–software validation.
• Strong understanding of system architecture, CPU/GPU/accelerator internals, memory systems, and I/O subsystems.

Technical Stack

• BIOS/UEFI, BMC, firmware, drivers, kernel subsystems
• Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, Docker, Singularity
• InfiniBand, RoCE

Team & Environment

You will be joining the Systems Development Engineering Team.

Benefits & Compensation

• Health and wellness benefits detailed at MyWellatDell.com
• Compensation range: $123k - $170k

Work Mode

This is an onsite role located in Austin, Texas.

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