Principal Consulting Engineer - HI
CDW Corporation4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$164k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define project strategies and technical options that balance customer goals, architecture, delivery risk, operational readiness, and financial constraints.
- Lead complex customer engagements, architecture reviews, technical governance, solution validation, escalation management, and quality oversight.
- Advise enterprise clients and stakeholders on AI architecture, generative AI, agentic systems, RAG, MLOps, model serving, integration, governance, and accelerated infrastructure.
- Support strategic sales pursuits through discovery, solution shaping, proposals, SOWs, ROMs, LOEs, presentations, and executive workshops.
- Develop AI Factory standards, best practices, deployment frameworks, reference architectures, training, and repeatable service offerings.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and partner ecosystems to guide technical direction and investment priorities.
- Mentor consulting engineers, senior engineers, architects, and technical leads and collaborate on enablement plans.
- Represent CDW as a technical thought leader and maintain trusted relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of hands-on software, data, infrastructure, or AI solution experience, including 3 years of consulting experience with large enterprises and cross-functional projects, or 10 years of relevant hands-on experience including 3 years of enterprise consulting experience.
- Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise generative AI, agentic AI, RAG, model-serving, MLOps, fine-tuning, or distributed inference solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of NVIDIA NIM, NVIDIA Blueprints, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Python, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, AI observability, evaluation, security, and production operations.
- Understanding of GPU infrastructure and hardware-software tradeoffs affecting AI performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
- Ability to research complex technology solutions, evaluate alternatives, make recommendations, and present technology guidance from a business perspective.
- Excellent written, presentation, verbal communication, stakeholder-management, and executive-advisory skills.
- Ability to work through change, ambiguity, and risk and proactively engage leadership.
- Willingness to work beyond regular shifts, select weekends, or overtime when operationally necessary.
- Willingness to travel to CDW locations or client sites as needed.
- Valid U.S. driver’s license.
- Experience with enterprise AI strategy, operating models, governance, application modernization, large-scale AI transformation, partner alignment, consulting offerings, intellectual property, architecture standards, or reusable delivery assets is preferred.
- Preferred certifications include NVIDIA-Certified Professional Generative AI LLMs (NCP-GENL) and NVIDIA-Certified Professional Agentic AI (NCP-AAI).
Benefits
- Annual bonus target of 10% subject to plan terms and conditions.
- Benefits information is provided through the CDW benefits overview.
- The role may be subject to geographic salary differentials and requires travel as needed to CDW locations or client sites.
- The role may require work beyond regularly scheduled shifts, select weekends, or overtime to meet operational needs.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About CDW Corporation
CDW Corporation is an IT solutions provider and reseller that designs, supplies, and manages hardware, software, cloud, and cybersecurity for businesses, government, education, and healthcare. Its model combines product resale from major vendors with consulting, managed services, and lifecycle support across data center, networking, and end‑user computing. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Vernon Hills, Illinois, CDW is publicly traded on NASDAQ.