Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Dell provides the technology that transforms the way we all work and live. But we are more than a technology company - we are a people company. We inspire and respect every one of our over 150,000 employees. We also provide them with unparalleled growth and development opportunities.

We are currently looking for a Solution Architect (SA) to join our Customer Solution Center (CSC) team based in Austin, TX.

As part of Global PreSales, the Dell Customer Solution Centers are focused on providing customers with confidence that the proposed solution/architecture will satisfy their specific IT requirements and service level objectives (SLOs).

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What makes this role exciting?

You will have the opportunity to work on the leading edge of Server, Storage and Networking technologies and build systems to assist customers in making the best possible decisions for their HPC requirements.

You will interact with worldwide specialists and customers in all industries from Academia, Life Sciences to Manufacturing and Finance and contribute to Dell's mission to drive human progress through technology.

Read more to learn about joining an exciting fast-paced, high-performance team supporting the Global Sales business.

Principle Duties & Responsibilities

• The Solutions Architect is primarily responsible for delivering Proofs-of-Concept, Technical Briefings and Architectural Design Sessions to customers and partners, and in doing so meeting and exceeding customer expectations

• Be a Subject Matter Expert in Data Center infrastructure focusing on Server, High Performance Computing, and Hyper Converged solutions

• You will work with the sales & product group teams to provide feedback & suggestions for improvement, competitive strengths and weaknesses, lab inventory and planning for upcoming product releases.

• Support CSC communications plans by documenting the solutions you are responsible for and documenting success stories, using blogs, social media feeds etc

• Deep System and Architecture Expertise: A comprehensive understanding of heterogeneous HPC architectures-including modern CPUs, GPUs, high-speed fabrics (InfiniBand), memory hierarchies, and parallel file systems (BeeGFS, Pixstor)-along with the ability to tune BIOS, OS, and system-level parameters for maximum throughput.
• Rigorous Benchmarking Expertise: Extensive experience with synthetic benchmarks (HPL, HPCG, Stream) and real-world scientific and technical workloads, including optimizing application compilation and runtime parameters.
• Proficiency in Parallel Paradigms and Profiling Tools: Advanced knowledge of parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, ROCm) paired with hands-on expertise in using performance analysis, profiling, and tracing tools (e.g., NVIDIA Nsight, Intel VTune, Score-P) to pinpoint bottlenecks in compute, memory, and I/O.

• Bachelors with 10+ years of experience in a relevant role
• Strong experience in Redhat Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux
• Strong knowledge on AMD High Performance Computing
• Knowledge of storage concepts: VSAN, NAS, SCSI, RAID, Storage Groups, volumes etc.
• Exceptional technical, verbal communication and presentation skills

• Experience within complex customer environments especially within core Dell technology offerings

• Good scripting abilities

• Prior Hands-on and architecture experience using various hardware and software platforms including
  • Windows and VMware
  • High-speed network components and InfiniBand Switching
  • Clustering software such as Bright Cluster Manager and job schedulers such as Slurm and PBSPro
  • Parallel File Systems like Lustre and BeeGFS
  • NFS storage systems like PowerScale
  • Container management platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, & Singularity.