Software Senior Principal Engineer / Autonomous AI Software Engineering
Dell Technologies9 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define reference architectures for autonomous agent systems across the software development lifecycle, including orchestration, multi-agent patterns, tool use, MCP, sandboxed runtimes, model routing, and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Lead objective technical evaluations and proof-of-concept testing of commercial, open-source, and in-house agent technologies to inform build-versus-buy decisions.
- Establish testing, qualification, acceptance, benchmarking, and regression-monitoring standards for agent-generated code, artifacts, platforms, and models.
- Architect secure and trustworthy agent execution frameworks with auditability, traceability, reproducibility, privacy, failure containment, permissions, and defenses against prompt injection and unauthorized tool execution.
- Write code, build prototypes and integrations, construct core platform capabilities, define the autonomy maturity roadmap, drive enterprise adoption, align cross-functional engineering initiatives, and mentor senior technical talent.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years as an architect or technical lead for large-scale distributed platforms.
- Proven experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining production-grade autonomous agent platforms with runtimes, orchestration engines, tool and MCP integrations, context management, and dynamic model routing.
- Experience designing multi-agent architectures for autonomous software development, including task decomposition, planner/executor/reviewer patterns, structured handoffs, and human-in-the-loop validation that produces production pull requests.
- Deep expertise in secure agent execution environments, sandboxing, workload scheduling, persistent state, distributed tracing and replay, cost optimization, fine-grained access control, and defenses against prompt injection and sandbox escape.
- Direct experience building agent evaluation frameworks, automated benchmarking suites, and regression-testing pipelines, with broad knowledge of open-source and commercial agent ecosystems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience scaling an agent platform from prototype to enterprise adoption or building commercial agent-based software products is desirable.
- Advanced familiarity with long-horizon agent reasoning, autonomous planning, reflection, self-correction, and reinforcement learning from feedback is desirable.
- Recognized technical leadership in agentic AI through open-source contributions, publications, patents, or benchmark releases is desirable.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
- Dell team-member benefits and wellness resources are available through MyWellatDell.com.
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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.