Principal Systems Development Engineer

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Server Platform Validation Principal Engineer

Function: Hardware / Platform Validation

Role Summary

Hands-on System Development Engineer responsible forend-to-end validation of x86 and ARM server platforms, with strong emphasis onserver board‑level validation, firmware/BIOS testing, and system bring‑up. This is alab‑intensive role spanninghardware, firmware, OS, and platform integration across pre-production and NPI environments.

What you’ll achieve: 

As a Principal Engineer, you will design and implement critical services, lead complex refactors, and champion quality. You will collaborate across teams to resolve dependencies and raise the bar for performance and reliability. 

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Principal Engineer on our Systems Development Engineering team. 

Take the first step towards your dream career 

Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role: 

Mandatory Qualifications

• 10+ years ofhands‑on server platform validation / system development experience. Bachelor’s/Master’s degree inEE, ECE, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

• Strong experience withserver board‑level validation and bring‑up (power, clocks, reset, PCIe, memory).

• Hands‑on experience withx86 and ARM server platforms across multiple generations.

• StrongBIOS/UEFI and OpenBMC firmware validation experience.

• Board‑level debug experience usingJTAG/XDP, PCIe analyzers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes.

• Proven experience inhardware stability, stress, thermal, and power validation.

• Strong debug skills acrosshardware, firmware, and Linux OS.

Core Technical Skills

• PCIe Gen4/Gen5, DDR4/DDR5, NVMe, CXL

• Server power, thermal, and high‑speed design concepts

• Linux debug tools: lspci, dmidecode, mcelog, ipmitool

• Python/Bash for automation; working knowledge of C/C++

Desired / Preferred Skills

• Hands‑on experience withGPU validation and testing:

-NVIDIA GPUs (CUDA, nvidia‑smi, DCGM, NVLink/NVSwitch)

-AMD GPUs (ROCm, rocm‑smi, Infinity Fabric)

-AI/HPC benchmarks (MLPerf, HPL, NCCL/RCCL)

• Exposure tomulti‑GPU server platforms and high‑density AI systems.

• Experience withOCP platforms, hyperscale or cloud server validation.

• Familiarity withcompliance testing (PCI‑SIG, UEFI SCT).