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Senior Principal Software Engineer
The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Principal Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Austin, Texas or Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
What you’ll achieve
As a Senior Software Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for developing sophisticated systems and software basis the customer’s business goals, needs and general business environment creating software solutions.
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We are hiring a Senior HPC Solution Architect to design, deploy, and support large‑scale HPC and AI clusters for enterprise, research, and hyperscale customers. This is a hands‑on, customer‑facing Individual Contributor role that blends Linux systems engineering, cluster lifecycle automation, provisioning frameworks (Omnia/OpenCHAMI), Slurm/Kubernetes, and deep troubleshooting of production environments. Ideal for strong technical engineers who enjoy solving complex customer problems, contributing to open‑source, and shaping modern HPC deployment practices.
Lead customer architecture & design, translating HPC/AI workload requirements into scalable cluster architectures (compute, schedulers, storage, interconnects)
Deploy and operationalize clusters using Omnia or similar automation, including provisioning, scheduler bring‑up, telemetry, authentication, and repo management
Build and maintain provisioning workflows (OpenCHAMI‑based or equivalent) covering PXE/iPXE boot, cloud‑init, security, and identity/cert operations
Serve as Tier‑3 engineering escalation, troubleshooting complex provisioning, scheduling, GPU, networking, and performance issues; perform RCAs and drive permanent fixes
Contribute to open source and customer enablement through code contributions, documentation, workshops, runbooks, templates, and field readiness materials
Essential Requirements:
HPC & Distributed Systems: 8+ years engineering large‑scale HPC and distributed infrastructure, with strong knowledge of cluster architecture, schedulers, and provisioning workflows
Linux & Automation: Deep experience with RHEL/Rocky/Ubuntu; hands‑on cluster deployments using open‑source toolchains, Omnia, and OpenCHAMI (composable provisioning, cloud‑init, microservices)
Schedulers, Containers & Observability: Production experience with Slurm and/or Kubernetes; proficient with Docker/Podman, OpenTelemetry pipelines, and telemetry instrumentation
Networking, Fabrics & Streaming: Solid L2/L3 fundamentals, PXE/iPXE, DHCP/TFTP; experience with InfiniBand/RoCE/Omni‑Path fabrics and event streaming with Kafka
Scripting, Monitoring & Customer Engagement: Strong skills in Ansible, Python, Bash; expertise with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards; proven communication skills for escalations and simplifying complex HPC concepts
Compensation
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $210,000 - $265,000.
Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies
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Who we are
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