Technical Staff, Storage Architect
Dell Technologies2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define architectures and solution designs for enterprise customers based on workload requirements.
- Architect AI-optimized storage and data-management solutions using scale-out file, object, and parallel filesystem technologies.
- Influence end-to-end AI infrastructure stacks spanning software frameworks, compute, storage, networking, data security, and datacenter deployment.
- Develop solution configurations, bills of materials, and SKUs in collaboration with Engineering and technology partners.
- Investigate new fabric technologies and storage platforms for large-scale AI deployments.
- Serve as a technical escalation point and represent the company in internal and external architecture forums.
- Generate invention disclosures and technology-strategy insights while influencing multi-year technology and product roadmaps.
- Optimize solutions for AI customer applications and tune systems for maximum performance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in storage architecture, data platforms, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise in scale-out file and object storage, parallel filesystems, NFS, S3, erasure coding, deduplication, encryption, tiering, backup, and versioning.
- Deep understanding of AI/ML workflows, data pipelines, training and inference patterns, data analytics, Vector DB, KV Cache, and enterprise cluster deployments.
- Ability to define storage configurations that meet production-grade performance and SLA requirements.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
- Experience working with industry vendors to influence next-generation technology design.
- Ability to translate business outcomes into practical, scalable technical architectures.
- Willingness to travel 20–30%.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Knowledge of AI/ML or HPC performance engineering, benchmarking, scripting with Python or Bash, Linux, datacenter technologies, fabrics, cooling, telemetry, or cluster orchestration.
Benefits
- The role is based in Santa Clara, California.
- The position requires 20–30% travel.
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies builds PCs, monitors, and peripherals for consumers and enterprises, and provides servers, storage, networking, and edge solutions for data centers. It sells hardware, software, and support services through direct, channel, and online models to organizations of all sizes and the public sector. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, it includes the former EMC storage business and operates globally across client computing and infrastructure markets.