Senior Principal AI Engineer

**Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer**

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as an **Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer** on our **Agentic AI Software Engineering Team** in **Austin, Texas.**

**Responsibilities**

**What you’ll achieve**

We are seeking a **Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer** to help shape the future of our intelligent systems and build AI-native engineering systems and autonomous development workflows. This role focuses on designing scalable, production-ready AI solutions where LLMs can reason, use tools, and automate software engineering tasks.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building agentic AI systems, orchestration workflows, and AI-assisted developer tooling.

**You will:**

+ Design and build AI-driven engineering workflows using LLMs and autonomous agents

+ Steer and validate AI coding agents to improve engineering throughput and code quality

+ Develop testing, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks for AI-generated output

+ Optimize context management using embeddings, retrieval, and memory strategies

+ Partner with teams to deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native AI solutions

**Qualifications**

**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**

+ 10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent skill; **must include hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, production AI agents, or autonomous workflows**

+ Strong programming skills in Python, automation tooling, and Kubernetes

+ Experience with orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or evaluation frameworks

+ Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to adapt in fast-moving environments

**Compensation**

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. **The base salary range for this position is $196,000 - $269,500.**

**Job Identification** R289795

**Job Category** Software Engineering

**Job Schedule** Full time

**Locations** 701 E. Parmer Lane, Austin, TX, 78753, US

**Total Compensation Range** USD 196000 - USD 269500