Senior Principal Thermal Engineer
Dell Technologies
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This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$233,400 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $183k versus about $199k for comparable roles.
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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.
Dell Technologies currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $164,025–$225,750 across 64 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Principal Systems Thermal Engineer AI Infrastructure on the Thermal Engineering team, you will lead the architecture, integration, and validation of server, rack, and cluster-scale solutions. You will be responsible for developing next-generation cooling technologies, including air and liquid-cooled designs such as cold plates, CDUs, manifolds, and rack cooling systems. The role involves driving platform readiness from development through deployment while managing customer escalations and field quality investigations. To succeed, you must possess deep expertise in thermal management, infrastructure engineering, and hardware development for AI and HPC environments. You will utilize skills in CFD modeling with tools like Icepak, FloTHERM, or Star-CCM+ to solve complex cooling challenges for data center customers. This role addresses the critical technical challenge of maintaining reliable thermal performance for high-performance computing and accelerator architectures at scale.
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