Principal Software Engineer, Autonomous AI Software Engineering

Dell Technologies

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Work type
On-site
Location
Hopkinton, MA
Salary
$172,000–$236,500 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 30, 2026

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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.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Autonomous AI Software Engineering

The Software Principal Engineer joins the AI Governance Engineering team to integrate autonomous AI agents into the software development lifecycle. This role focuses on transforming agentic demos into dependable engineering practices by running proofs of concept against real-world codebases and building evaluation harnesses to measure reliability, speed, and security. You will build and experiment with agent platforms, integrating them into the engineering toolchain via APIs and the Model Context Protocol. Key technologies include Python, TypeScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, and Docker. You will also utilize LLMs, RAG, and OpenTelemetry for tracing. The work involves solving the technical challenge of enabling engineers to set direction while agents handle execution, requiring expertise in context engineering, sandboxed execution, and automated verification for complex codebases.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Massachusetts?

Median $199500 from 106 postings across 23 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Run hands-on proofs of concept and pilots for autonomous software-engineering agents on real-world engineering tasks.
  • Build evaluation harnesses including realistic task suites, benchmarks, and metrics for quality, reliability, speed, and cost.
  • Verify and validate agent output using automated tests, mutation testing, static analysis, and human review.
  • Integrate agents into the engineering toolchain via APIs, MCP, and custom tools for source control and CI/CD.
  • Implement guardrails, sandboxing, and observability to increase agent autonomy safely within the development lifecycle.
  • Develop core components for agent platforms such as execution loops, planning, task decomposition, and memory management.
  • Engineer context for agents on large codebases using indexing, retrieval, and context compaction techniques.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Proven track record of building core components of an autonomous agent platform in production.
  • Experience operating long-running autonomous agents in production using isolated sandbox environments, state checkpointing, and failure recovery.
  • Deep expertise in context engineering for software agents on large codebases, including code indexing and retrieval.
  • Experience with evaluation-driven agent development, including designing benchmarks and automated verification suites.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • Experience deploying or integrating autonomous agent platforms in an enterprise environment (preferred).
  • Production experience with multi-agent systems, durable execution engines, or contributions to open-source agent frameworks (preferred).

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