Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Dell Technologies

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Location
Austin, TX
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$170,850–$221,100 / yr
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5 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

JOB TITLE: Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture The Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture joins the Customer Solution Center team within Global PreSales. This role involves delivering Proofs-of-Concept, Technical Briefings, and Architectural Design Sessions to ensure proposed solutions satisfy specific IT requirements and service level objectives. You will build systems for High Performance Computing requirements, focusing on Server, Storage, and Networking technologies. Key responsibilities include providing feedback to product groups and documenting success stories. Required expertise includes heterogeneous HPC architectures, modern CPUs, GPUs, InfiniBand, and parallel file systems like BeeGFS and Pixstor. You must be proficient in Redhat Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux, with knowledge of AMD High Performance Computing. Technical skills include MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, ROCm, and benchmarking tools like HPL, HPCG, and Stream.

What you'll do

  • Deliver Proofs-of-Concept, Technical Briefings, and Architectural Design Sessions to customers and partners.
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert in Data Center infrastructure, specifically for Server, HPC, and Hyper Converged solutions.
  • Provide feedback to sales and product teams regarding competitive strengths, weaknesses, and upcoming product releases.
  • Document technical solutions and success stories for CSC communications plans via blogs and social media.
  • Design and tune heterogeneous HPC architectures including CPUs, GPUs, high-speed fabrics, and parallel file systems.
  • Perform rigorous benchmarking using synthetic benchmarks and real-world scientific workloads to optimize application performance.
  • Use performance analysis and profiling tools to identify and resolve bottlenecks in compute, memory, and I/O.
  • Configure and manage clustering software, job schedulers, and container management platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience in a relevant role.
  • Deep expertise in heterogeneous HPC architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, InfiniBand, and parallel file systems.
  • Extensive experience with synthetic benchmarks (HPL, HPCG, Stream) and optimizing scientific workloads.
  • Advanced knowledge of parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, ROCm) and profiling tools like NVIDIA Nsight or Intel VTune.
  • Strong experience in Redhat Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux.
  • Strong knowledge of AMD High Performance Computing.
  • Knowledge of storage concepts including VSAN, NAS, SCSI, RAID, and storage groups.
  • Exceptional technical, verbal communication, and presentation skills.
  • Experience within complex customer environments, especially with core Dell technology offerings (preferred).
  • Good scripting abilities (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with Windows, VMware, InfiniBand switching, Bright Cluster Manager, Slurm, PBSPro, Lustre, PowerScale, Kubernetes, Docker, and Singularity (preferred).

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