Senior Principal AI Performance Architect

Dell Technologies

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Austin, TX
Salary
$199,750–$258,500 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $213k
This role $229k
$148k $283k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays more than 61% of similar roles. Most pay $179,450–$246,712 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $229k versus about $213k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies is a US-based technology company that designs and sells PCs, servers, storage and networking hardware, along with related software and IT services. Its product lines include the XPS, Latitude and Alienware PCs and the PowerEdge server and PowerStore storage families.

Dell Technologies currently has 116 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $176,000–$240,790 across 105 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Dell Technologies

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Principal AI Performance Architect

The Senior Principal AI Performance Architect joins the Thermal, Power, Performance, and Acoustics team within the Client Product Group. This role involves driving system-level performance decisions across the client PC portfolio by balancing performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and user experience. Key responsibilities include forecasting performance targets and competitive positioning before product definition, leading dialogues with silicon, OS, ISV, and ODM partners, and analyzing system bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, and application layers. The architect will use AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking and performance tooling while collaborating with architecture and software teams. Required skills include experience with system-level trade-offs, triaging performance bottlenecks, and forecasting trends from ecosystem roadmaps. Desirable technical competencies include machine-learning-based performance policies, control frameworks, OS scheduling, and ETW/WPA trace analysis.

What you'll do

  • Forecast performance targets and competitive positioning for the line of business before product definition.
  • Set specific hardware targets for the line of business.
  • Lead forward-looking technical dialogues with silicon, OS, ISV, and ODM partners.
  • Use and validate AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking, analysis, and performance tooling.
  • Analyze system bottlenecks across performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and battery life.
  • Triage performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers.
  • Make data-based trade-off decisions and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences.

What we're looking for

  • Strong understanding of system-level trade-offs across performance, power, thermals, acoustics, and user experience.
  • Experience triaging performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers.
  • Proven ability to forecast performance trends from silicon, OS, and ecosystem roadmaps.
  • Ability to make data-based trade-off decisions and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong communication skills with experience influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders.
  • BS in Computer Engineering or a related field (preferred).
  • 10+ years of experience in system performance engineering (preferred).
  • Experience with machine-learning-based performance policies, control frameworks, OS scheduling, and ETW/WPA trace analysis (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Principal AI Performance Architect

Dell Technologies

Austin, TX 1 day ago $163,200–$211,200
x86 System Architecture machine-learning ETW WPA Trace Analysis OS Scheduling Control Frameworks Benchmarking Hardware Firmware Operating Systems AI Tools
8+ yrs exp

Principal AI Performance Architect

Dell Technologies

Austin, TX 1 day ago $163,200–$211,200
x86 System Architecture machine-learning ETW WPA Trace Analysis OS Scheduling Control Frameworks Benchmarking Hardware Firmware Operating Systems AI Tools
8+ yrs exp

Senior AI Performance Architect

Microsoft

24 days ago $119,800–$234,700
AI Systems Computer Architecture Performance Modeling High-Performance Computing Distributed Systems Python C++ CUDA Triton ROCm HIP Data Parallelism HBM PCIe Compilers
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Principal AI Performance Engineer

Arm Holdings

San Jose, CA 4 days ago $262,700–$355,400
Arm Python C++ Triton CUDA DNN Parallel Computing Performance Optimization AI Frameworks
Hybrid

Principal AI Performance Engineer

Arm Holdings

San Jose, CA 4 days ago $262,700–$355,400
Arm Python C++ Triton CUDA DNN Parallel Computing Performance Optimization AI Frameworks Hardware Architecture
Hybrid