Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture
- Networking

Dell Services is growing, and we are seeking seasoned network professionals with expertise in AI infrastructure planning, high-performance networking, data center fabrics, and enterprise network transformation
. Dell provides a complete end-to-end suite of products, services, and support for modern IT environments, including AI factories, accelerated computing platforms, HPC environments, data center networks, campus networks, and cloud-integrated architectures.

The Global Professional Services Network team provides assessment, architecture, design, implementation, and consulting services for Dell's networking and AI infrastructure solutions. This Network Planning Engineer will develop and maintain deep expertise in AI-ready network architectures, including high-speed Ethernet fabrics, GPU interconnect technologies, data center networking, campus networking, security, and network automation.

Whatyou’llachieve:

The primary purpose of this role is to work directly with customers to assess, design, plan, migrate, integrate, and optimize networking infrastructures that support AI workloads, accelerated computing platforms, and modern enterprise environments
. The engineer will act as a trusted technical advisor for customers building or expanding AI capabilities, ensuring that networking architectures deliver the performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational simplicity required for next-generation AI and data-intensive workloads.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a
Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture
- Networking
on our
Solutions Architecture
team.

You will:

AI Infrastructure Planning & Consulting

• Lead customer engagements focused on AI-ready infrastructure planning and network architecture.
• Design scalable AI networking solutions supporting GPU clusters, AI factories, machine learning platforms, and large-scale training/inference environments.
• Develop network architectures supporting high-performance east-west traffic patterns common in AI and HPC environments.
• Advise customers on network designs for accelerated computing environments utilizing Dell and NVIDIA technologies.
• Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and recommend improvements to maximize GPU utilization and AI workload performance.
• Serve as the networking lead during AI infrastructure assessments, workshops, proofs-of-concept, and production deployments.

Pre-Sales Support – as needed

• Support Solution Architects and account teams as the technical Services SME for networking and AI infrastructure opportunities.
• Participate in customer discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and executive technical briefings.
• Contribute to services statements of work, project scope definitions, implementation strategies, and risk assessments.
• Provide technical guidance regarding AI networking best practices

Implementation Planning, Migration, and Deployment

• Analyze customer environments and gather technical requirements.
• Understand, design, propose, and communicate architecture requirements to all stakeholders.
• Provide remote design, configuration, validation, and on-site deployment support.
• Develop deployment workbooks, migration plans, validation procedures, and implementation documentation.
• Ensure delivery resources fully understand customer-specific implementation and migration requirements.
• Act as the first line of technical escalation for assigned customer engagements.
• Lead major network deployments, AI fabric implementations, and migration projects.
• Design and validate high-speed Ethernet fabrics supporting GPU-accelerated workloads.
• Create network validation plans, performance testing procedures, and scalability assessments.
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