Technical Staff, Engineering Technologist

From applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material, and processes. It's a fascinating field of work. We're involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies, and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities, and recommend potential acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. And we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff on our Engineering Technologist team in Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

What you'll achieve:

As Technical Staff, you will provide expert guidance on technology investigations, prototyping strategies, and data generation that drive product decisions. You'll synthesize insights from experiments and literature to advise leaders and shape roadmaps. You will mentor technologists and contribute to playbooks and tool improvements.

You will:

• Provide technical expertise and engineering leadership to influence future mobile product design, with a strong focus on the front-end design cycle
• Collaborate with Marketing and internal teams to define product requirements and generate customer-focused design concepts
• Lead cross-functional technical decisions across industrial design, usability, quality, and reliability domains
• Develop and communicate design concepts using 3D CAD tools, and direct design enablement with external development partners (ODMs)
• Partner with technology providers to identify innovation opportunities, assess risks, ensure implementation readiness, and generate intellectual property

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• BS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or similar field with 15+ yrs experience
• Strong aptitude to assess and optimize products by making the proper feature tradeoffs between mechanical, electrical, power, thermal, firmware, and BIOS
• Must have excellent working knowledge of engineering design principles with specific expertise in the areas of large-scale production, sheet metal, injection molding, electrical interconnects, heat extraction, and vibration
• Must have extensive experience with 3D CAD systems, ability to create basic concept models, interrogate production development models, and convey ideas through CAD with strong aptitude for interpretation of mechanical simulations, design, test, and qualification requirements

• Typically requires 18+ years of related experience in a professional role with a Bachelor's degree; or 12+ years and a Master's degree; or 8+ years and a PhD; or equivalent experience
• Record of publications, patents, or standards participation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $229,500 - $297,000.

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