
Electrical Engineer
Santa Clara, CAFull-time$200–259K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Dell Technologies’ Infrastructure Solutions Group develops hardware and software for enterprise infrastructure and data management. The Electrical Senior Principal Engineer leads electrical design and development activities for networking hardware, coordinating work across Dell, ODMs, suppliers, and cross-functional teams from development through sustainment. The role focuses on delivering networking switch products that meet requirements for functionality, cost, quality, reliability, schedule, and compliance.
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Full job description
Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) builds the products that power infrastructure, solutions, and data management our customers need most. Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.
Some product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.
Within ISG, innovation isn't just about creating new technology- it's about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers' trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.
We move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren't looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.
If you're energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what's next instead of simply maintaining what's been done before, you'll find your place here.
Electrical Senior Principal Engineer
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as an Electrical Senior Principal Engineer on our Networking Hardware Engineering in Santa Clara, CA.
What you’ll achieve
As an Electrical Senior Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development activities associated with electronic designs. Leads and manages all electrical activities inside Dell and ODMs from development to sustain phase. Collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver high quality and cutting edge products for our customers.
You will:
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Work with the design team, cross functional teams, suppliers, and key technical partners to ensure the design meets requirements for schedule, feature set, functionality, cost, quality, reliability, regulatory compliance, and industry standards compliance.
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Review original design manufacturer and sub-tier vendor capability to support product development and production
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Design, develop, modify and evaluate electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for electronic equipment and other hardware systems and ensures that designs integrate with rest of product functions including mechanical and software
Responsibilities
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:
Essential Requirements
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Bachelor/Master EE with 15+ years experience on Intel/AMD CPU design and Broadcom ASIC Hardware Development in 25G/100G/400G/800G/1.6T Networking Switch Products.
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Advanced leadership skills for driving cross functional groups, demonstrates problem solving capability and drive for results.
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Advanced knowledge of analog and digital circuit theory and principles.
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Advanced technology/engineering skills relating to design, test and quality.
Desirable Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English
Compensation
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $200k - $259k.
Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies
Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member — right now at MyWellatDell.com
Job Identification 301824
Job Category Electrical Engineering
Job Schedule Full time
Locations 5450 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, US
Total Compensation Range USD 200387.5 - USD 259325
How this job compares
Set against the 10,301 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200–259K/yr
- California median$130–190K/yr1,079 salary ranges
- US median$106–165K/yr6,613 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $230K, is 43% above the California median midpoint ($160K) — in the top quarter of Electrical Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,327 open Electrical Engineer jobs in California and 10,301 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Anduril Industries77 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 8,613 postings).
- Education
- 6,797 of the 10,301 open Electrical Engineer jobs (66%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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