Senior Principal AI Performance Architect
Austin, TXFull-time$200–259K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Dell Technologies seeks a Senior Principal AI Performance Architect for its Client Product Group’s Thermal, Power, Performance, and Acoustics team in Austin. The role drives system-level performance decisions across the client PC portfolio, balancing performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and user experience. It focuses on forecasting platform targets, competitive shifts, and workload bottlenecks before product definition, while partnering with marketing, product teams, and technology partners on target-setting and positioning.
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SUMMARY
Senior Principal AI Performance Architect
Dell's Client Product Group (CPG) is looking for a Senior Principal AI System Performance Architect to join the Thermal, Power, Performance, and Acoustics (TPPA) team in Austin, TX. You will drive system-level performance decisions across Dell's client PC portfolio, balancing performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and user experience with our silicon, OS, and ODM partners.
In this role you will focus on forward-looking performance: forecasting platform targets, competitive shifts, and workload bottlenecks before product definition locks, and working with marketing and product teams on target-setting and positioning.
What you'll achieve
Dell's Engineering Mission is to deliver differentiated and disruptive products, experiences, and solutions that excite our sales teams, stun our competition, and delight our customers. Dell supports continued learning through tools and courses that build functional, technical, and leadership skills.
Responsibilities
You will:
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Forecast performance targets and competitive positioning for your line of business (LOB) before product definition, and set LOB-specific hardware targets
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Lead the forward-looking dialogue with silicon, OS, ISV, and ODM partners
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Collaborate with architecture, thermal, firmware, OS, and software teams from preconcept through production
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Use and validate AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking, analysis, and performance tooling
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Analyze system bottlenecks across performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and battery life
Qualifications
Essential Requirements
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Strong understanding of system-level trade-offs across performance, power, thermals, acoustics, and user experience
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Experience triaging performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers
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Proven ability to forecast performance trends from silicon, OS, and ecosystem roadmaps
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Ability to make data-based trade-off decisions and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences
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Strong communicator with a customer-first mindset; experience influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders
Desirable Requirements
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BS in Computer Engineering (or a related field), with 10+ years of experience in system performance engineering
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Experience implementing machine-learning-based performance policies
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Hands-on experience with control frameworks, OS scheduling, and ETW/WPA trace analysis
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Experience with competitive benchmarking across PC platforms
Who we are
We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That is why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you are looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced technology in the industry, we are looking for you.
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live, and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.
Application closing date: 01/30/2027
Dell Technologies is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Read the full Equal Employment Opportunity Policy on the Dell Technologies careers site.
About Us
Who We Are
We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.
Dell Technologies is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Read the full Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (https://iawmqy.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/careers/pages/equal-employment-opportunity-policy-statement) .
Visit our Culture Code (https://jobs.dell.com/en/how-we-work-and-lead) page to learn more about how we work and lead.
Job Identification 300870
Job Category Engineering Technologist
Job Schedule Full time
Locations 701 E. Parmer Lane, Austin, TX, 78753, US
Total Compensation Range USD 199750 - USD 258500
How this job compares
Set against the 11,242 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200–259K/yr
- Texas median$108–180K/yr293 salary ranges
- US median$116–187K/yr8,253 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $229K, is 56% above the Texas median midpoint ($147K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 590 open Systems Engineer jobs in Texas and 11,242 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 9,520 postings).
- Education
- 4,646 of the 11,242 open Systems Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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