Technical Staff, Platform Architect

Technical Staff, Platform Architect

From applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities and recommend potential av acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. And we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff- Platform Architect on our Engineering Technologist Team in Santa Clara, California

What you’ll achieve Participate in the development of next-generation large-scale AI Infrastructure to include accelerated compute, AI Fabric and AI optimized storage. Engage with high profile AI customers to optimize solutions for their applications and tune systems for maximum performance. Drive innovation at datacenter level with liquid cooling technologies and power density.

• Drive AI software and hardware designs based on customer requirements and required infrastructure. Address business outcome requirements with AI guidance across software and hardware options that scale based on datacenter and business requirements.

• Optimize the software and hardware configuration to maximize performance and efficiency of datacenter components.

• Work closely with key external partners to create differentiated solutions and develop software and hardware solution architectures to integrate within Enterprise datacenter frameworks and applications.

• Engage with high profile partners/customers to drive innovation at the workload, platform and datacenter level and provide expertise on multiple AI technologies and shape future products

• Participate in strategic internal and industry forums and be a point of escalation for critical development issues and generate Intellectual Property including invention disclosures

Maintain multi-year roadmaps detailing feature trade-offs and host regular technology reviews to ensure roadmap and Dell business objectives alignment

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

• Ability to Drive model selection and advise in architectural trade-offs and implication against customer targeted outcomes along with deep knowledge in open-source and commercial AI workflow applications and their implications across compute, network and storage.
• Deliver a comprehensive plan and documentation for building and implementing AI solutions for stated business needs.
• Working experience with Enterprise cluster deployments, AI workflows for training and inferencing use cases.
• Solid understanding of computer architecture to including CPUs, accelerators, networking, storage and benchmarking methodologies.
• Experience identifying, developing and communicating differentiation opportunities and providing recommendations to marketing, procurement, engineering, customers and business executives and understand business needs while developing technical solutions; need to be able to travel 20%-30% to assess customer requirements and develop blueprints.

Desirable Requirements

Masters, PhD or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science or equivalent experience

Job Info

• Job Identification 297957

• Job Category Engineering Technologist

• Posting Date 09/29/2026, 09:24 AM

• Apply Before 10/05/2026, 08:00 PM

• Job Schedule Full time

• Locations

5450 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, US

• Total Compensation Range USD 263925 - USD 341550