Senior Principal Software Engineer, Autonomous AI Software Engineering
Dell Technologies
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This role pays less than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $179,425–$231,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $204k versus about $205k 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 78 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $172,000–$236,500 across 73 roles with salary data.
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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.
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