Senior Principal AI Performance Architect

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: 

• Forecast performance targets and competitive positioning for your line of business (LOB) before product definition, and set LOB-specific hardware targets 

• Lead the forward-looking dialogue with silicon, OS, ISV, and ODM partners 

• 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 

• Analyze system bottlenecks across performance, power efficiency, thermals, acoustics, and battery life 

Qualifications

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 

• Proven ability to forecast performance trends from silicon, OS, and ecosystem roadmaps 

• 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 

• 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.

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.

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