Technical Staff Ai Architect jobs at Dell in United States, Round Rock

is a 12 – 24-month training program designed to develop recent college and university graduates into skilled

You will:

• Undergo Intensive Academy Training : Participate in a structured training program that covers Dell Technologies’ advanced data center infrastructure, networking, and AI solutions

• Learn the Ropes and Stay Ahead : Gain hands-on experience with our cutting-edge data center solutions and explore the latest trends in cloud computing and AI, while discovering how modern IT infrastructure is evolving and helping customers adapt to exciting new technologies

• Customer Connection : Develop your skills in understanding customer needs and crafting tailored tech solutions that set us above the rest

• Team Collaboration : Work alongside diverse teams to create innovative solutions that tackle real-world challenges

• Present with Confidence : Share your knowledge through engaging product demos and presentations that showcase our portfolio’s breadth of comprehensive solutions

Essential Requirements

• Undergraduate or Master's Degree earned in a technical or business-related field no more than 12 months prior to start date of February 2, 2026 or August 3, 2026

• Excellent technology skills, outstanding interpersonal abilities, strong written and verbal communication skills

• Attention to detail and problem-solving capabilities

• Being an innovative thinker and a self-starter with a desire-to-win type mindset

• Consultative technical design and selling skills

• Aptitude for technical curiosity and keen on continuous learning

Desirable Requirements

• Internship experience in technology-related field or a technology company

• Participation in roles outside of class (clubs, sports, etc.)

As a technical Staff member of our AI Solution Engineering team, you will be responsible for investigation, evaluation, validation and producing solutions and publication ready reference architectures for GenAI Solutions based on Dell server, storage and networking products, GPUs/DPUs/SmartNICs and applications from alliance partners. You will collaborate with AI, Server, Storage, Network architects, engineers, developers, product managers, and sales staff to ensure that our AI solutions are best-in-class for customer needs while being cost-effective.

As a senior member of our AI Solution Engineering team, you will be responsible for early investigation, evaluation, validation and producing solutions and publication ready reference architectures for GenAI Solutions based on Dell server, storage and networking products, GPUs/DPUs/SmartNICs and applications from alliance partners. You will collaborate with AI, Server, Storage, Network architects, engineers, developers, product managers, and sales staff to ensure that our AI solutions are best-in-class for customer needs while being cost-effective.

You will:

• Perform technical planning, analysis and hardware performance studies to meet solution requirements and perform component hardware and software integration and derive solution level requirement needed in early POC phases.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues related to the system, software and solution level interoperability, functionality, performance and scaling
• Engage with sales and extended teams to scope project work aligned to priorities; work with system engineers, project managers and Lab operation team members to design, develop, release and support the solution
• Create presentations describing the technical details of our solutions in a format appropriate for use with sales teams and customers

Essential Requirements

• 10 + years of experience in architecting, developing and deploying end-to-end (infrastructure to platform to application to workload to use-cases) AI solutions Management Solutions or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of hands-on experience on system engineering with AI related experience and performance
• Experience with NVDIA GPUS hardware, software and management stack/Experience with Dell hardware, serves, networking and software
• Experience with GenAI, AI, ML technologies\Outstanding communication skills
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes, Openshift

Desirable Requirements

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
• Hands on experience in dealing with Block, File and Object Storage/Experience with various GPU silicon technologies including NVIDIA, AMD and Intel
• Experience on AI tools and Models, including Hugging Face, Meta, ML Frameworks like Pytoch and Jupyter, MLOps such as mlflow, etc

What you’ll achieve

As a Technical Staff, Platform Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale Enterprise AI Infrastructure including AI workflow design, model evaluations and SW stacks for accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies. As part of an advanced technology pod, you will define long-term technology

As a Technical Staff, Platform Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale AI Infrastructure including accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies. As part of an advanced technology pod, you will define long-term technology

You will:

• Drive hardware design based on customer requirements and required infrastructure. Address liquid cooling solutions and other platform engineering aspects that scale based on datacenter requirements. Define hardware topologies that are optimized for efficiency and performance for AI workloads, Maintain multi-year roadmaps detailing feature trade-offs and host regular technology reviews to ensure roadmap and Dell business objectives alignment

• Optimize the hardware configuration to maximize performance and efficiency of datacenter components

• Develop hardware solutions and architecture to integrate with datacenter frameworks and applications and create differentiated solutions high profile partners/customers to drive innovation at the datacenter and platform level

• Provide expertise on multiple technologies and shape future products

• Participate in strategic internal and industry forums and be a point of escalation for critical development issues, generate Intellectual Property including invention disclosures

Essential Requirements

• 15+ years of related hardware industry experience or equivalent skill; experience with HPC (high-performance compute) clusters, AI compute and/or storage platforms highly desired

• Solid understanding of computer architecture to include Central Processing Unit (CPU) accelerators, networking, storage and benchmarking

• Ability to develop technical relationships with the vendor base for core technology or solutions to drive requirements into next generation vendor designs

• Experience identifying, developing and communicating differentiation opportunities and providing recommendations to marketing, procurement, engineering, customers and business executives

• Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions; need to be able to travel 20%-30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints

Desirable Requirements

• Masters, PhD or Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Compensation: Dell is committed to Fair and Equitable compensation practices. The Base Salary Range for this role is $230,000.00 to $295,000.00

You will:

• Technical lead working with customer in in understanding the project details, developing technical proposals, and aligning with internal Dell Engineering and Planning team.

• Develop Complete solution with Compute, Storage and Networking components to L12 (customer datacenter) delivery

• Develop solution Overview across L10 and L11, validate with Engineering

• Propose BOM/ SKUs to meet technical requirements based on customer input and review with Engineering & planning and develop solution proposals and integration requirements for Enterprise AI solutions

• Validate with Engineering team the customer requirements and BOM defined for the proposal

Essential Requirements

• 15+ years of related experience in product technology and system level integration

• Adept at conducting presentations to peers, cross-functional teams and director level leadership with an understanding of appropriate technologies, vendor products, and competitor's offerings

• Knowledge of and experience with scale-out file/object storage and parallel file systems for providing scalable shared access to data for compute clusters along with familiarity with common storage concepts such as NFS/S3 access protocols, erasure encoding, deduplication, encryption, versioning, tiering, data management, and backup

• Ability to define appropriate storage system configurations that satisfy production application performance and service level requirements.

• Customer and partner project/program leadership experience; must have ability to understand and assess customer requirements, develop technical solutions based on customers geographical area, negotiate conflicting interests and prioritize deliverables to achieve the best possible outcome for all stakeholders; need to be able to travel 20%-30%

Desirable Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

• Knowledge in area of system performance work related to AI/ML or HPC along with the ability to write scripts for testing & Linux know-how is also a plus

Compensation: Dell is committed to Fair and Equitable compensation practices. The Base Salary Range for this role is $230,000.00 to $295,000.00

Technical Staff - Data Center / Thermal Architect

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What you’ll achieve

As a Technical Staff, Data Center Thermal Architect, you will have the opportunity to collaborate on the architecture of next generation large scale AI Infrastructure including accelerated compute, AI fabrics and AI optimized storage. In addition to AI IT technologies, this role will leverage state-of-the-art rack and data center power solutions and innovative liquid cooling technologies. As part of an advanced technology pod, you will define long-term technology

You will:

• Be responsible for driving the architecture of end-to-end solutions from server to data center, including air and liquid cooled servers, integrated rack solutions, power distribution and heat rejection

• Innovate power-centric solutions for increasingly dense IT environments and engage with high profile AI customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune the system for maximum performance

• Develop solution Overview and validate with Engineering and propose BOM/ SKUs to meet technical requirements and re‐view with Engineering & shape the offer accordingly

• Design Air, Liquid and other cooling solutions based on Datacenter and customer requirements and design Direct Liquid Cooling for different geographic areas

• Optimize cost, energy efficiency and performance from IT to the datacenter by driving hardware design and required infrastructure this includes addressing liquid cooling solutions and other platform engineering aspects that scale based on datacenter requirements, hardware topologies that are optimized for efficiency and performance for AI workloads

Essential Requirements

• Experience collaborating with customers on architectural and design requirements spanning IT Systems to Datacenter Thermal technologies including heat transfer and the ability to analyze component /system level problems and apply advanced cooling technologies

• Deep knowledge of thermal testing, flow and thermal measurement techniques, and the use of FEA, CAD & CFD tools to help optimize and guide thermal solutions along with the ability to optimize thermal solutions for operating environments, business needs, and product requirements is a core requirement

• Solid understanding and knowledge of and relationships with key suppliers of data center power and thermal management components

• Ability to collaborate with Dell’s technology partners and supply base on cutting edge technology development and work with ODMs on mechanical, thermal & electrical aspects of system design including experience interfacing effectively with suppliers to ensure they are both doing research and providing information on products or services that have value to the company, instigating and coordinating these efforts as necessary on a continual basis

• Understanding of the competitive and business needs while developing technical solutions including knowledge of manufacturing processes and the tolerance control requirements for high volume production environments, and author architecture specification to be a guiding light for development of future products.

Desirable Requirements

• 15 + years of related experience. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis on thermal science, fluid dynamics or heat transfer. Years of experience offset with an advanced degree

• Ability to understand business needs while developing technical solutions; need to be able to travel 20%-30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints

Compensation: Dell is committed to Fair and Equitable compensation practices. The Base Salary Range for this role is $230,000.00 to $295,000.00

You will:

Drive Network and Fabric designs based on customer requirements and required infrastructure. Address InfiniBand, Ethernet, Accelerated Fabric Link (AFL) and other Fabric topologies that scale based on datacenter requirements. Define Network topologies that are optimized for Training and Inferencing.

• Lead the development of end-to-end AI network architecture including Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-GPU, server-storage, in-rack cabling and optical design at the datacenter level
• Optimize the network topology and configuration to maximize performance of AI clusters
• Work closely with key external partners to create differentiated solutions
• Develop networking software, solutions and architecture to integrate with AI frameworks and applications
• Develop network topologies and integration requirements for existing Enterprise networks for AI solution

Essential Requirements

• Expert understanding of key networking technologies to include switches, network-interface cards (NIC), Data Processing Units (DPU) and AI Fabrics
• Experience in AI framework integration (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes for ML workloads)
• Experience with data center network design and optical distribution along with knowledge of networking protocol industry standards
• Knowledge of network topologies that are optimized for Training and Inferencing
• Customer and partner project/program leadership experience; must have ability to understand and assess customer requirements, develop technical solutions based on customers geographical area, negotiate conflicting interests and prioritize deliverables to achieve the best possible outcome for all stakeholders; need to be able to travel 20%-30%

Desirable Requirements

• 15+ years industry experience with bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Possess relationships with key suppliers of networking products

Compensation: Dell is committed to Fair and Equitable compensation practices. The Base Salary for this role is $230,000.00 to $295,000.00