Software Principal Engineer
Dell Technologies1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive board bring-up and SONiC platform qualification with ODM and OEM partners across BMC, Dell iDRAC-based, and non-iDRAC-based systems.
- Validate optics, cables, transceivers, sensors, link bring-up, signal integrity, FEC errors, BER, and DOM readings up to 1.6T.
- Validate platform stability, performance, reliability, thermal and power readiness, stress, longevity, failover, recovery, and fault injection across air-cooled and DLC architectures.
- Validate platform security through threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, CVE remediation, secure boot, PFR, firmware and image integrity, security scans, and platform hardening.
- Develop Python and SpyTest test automation, analyze logs, telemetry, diagnostics, and packet captures, and drive triage and closure of field escapes.
- Collaborate with platform, firmware, hardware, ODM, and OEM teams to deliver reliable and secure production-ready platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, CSE, ECE, EEE, IT, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, or an equivalent field.
- Working knowledge of platform features, UDS validation, board bring-up, hardware diagnostics, BIOS/UEFI, CPLD, switch ASICs, SerDes, I2C/SMBus, power, thermal systems, and BMC management.
- Experience validating optics, cables, transceivers, DAC, AOC, QSFP-DD, OSFP, DOM, and BER analysis up to 1.6T.
- Strong Python and test automation skills with SpyTest, CI/CD, traffic generator testing, packet analysis, telemetry, and northbound interfaces.
- Knowledge of Layer 2/3 networking, BGP, VXLAN-EVPN, ECMP, QoS, RoCE, high availability, rack-level compute integration, secure boot, PFR, image integrity, and vulnerability management.
- Hands-on SONiC and SpyTest experience, SDD/TDD exposure, and familiarity with security scanning and network analysis tools such as OpenSCAP, Nessus, Qualys, Trivy, OpenVAS, Lynis, and Nmap are desirable.
- Experience with AI agents and AI-assisted workflows using tools such as Claude, Devin, or GitHub Copilot is desirable.
- Exposure to UALink and Ultra Ethernet is desirable.
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.