Senior Principal AI System Performance Architect

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Senior Principal AI System 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 team to create new & exciting PC products. This role involves architecting, analyzing, & optimizing performance strategies of cutting-edge PC products. 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. The team works at the forefront of technology, driven by a passion for innovation, harnessing each other's strengths, & radiates a strong sense of camaraderie.

In this role you will focus on architecture and policy: defining the system performance requirements that products must meet, creating the tuning policies that deliver them, and validating compliance through development.

Join us to do the best work of your career & make a profound social impact as a Senior Principal AI System Performance Architect on our TPPA team in Austin, Texas.

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.

You will:

• Define and maintain system performance requirements and specifications across the product lifecycle

• Develop performance policies and tuning strategies, including machine-learning-based approaches

• Validate performance compliance throughout product development 

• Collaborate with architecture, thermal, firmware, OS, and software teams from preconcept through production

• Use and validate AI-augmented workflows for benchmarking, analysis, and performance tooling

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

• • Strong understanding of system-level trade-offs across performance, power, thermals, acoustics, and user experience
• • Experience triaging performance bottlenecks across hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers
• • Deep expertise in x86 architecture and system design
• • Ability to make data-based trade-off decisions and explain them to technical and non-technical audiences
• • Strong communicator with a customer-first mindset; experience influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders

Desirable Requirements

• • BS in Computer Engineering or a related field, with 10+ years of experience in system performance engineering

  • Experience implementing machine-learning-based performance policies

• • Hands-on experience with control frameworks, OS scheduling, and ETW/WPA trace analysis

Compensation:   
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this position is $188,000 – $258,500