Software Principal Engineer / Autonomous AI Software Engineering
Dell Technologies9 hours ago
Base Salary
$172k - $237k/yr
Responsibilities
- Run proofs of concept and pilots of autonomous software-engineering agents and agent platforms on representative real-world engineering tasks.
- Build realistic task suites, benchmarks, evaluation harnesses, and metrics for agent quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, cost, and security.
- Verify agent output through automated tests, mutation testing, static and security analysis, acceptance-criteria checks, and human review.
- Integrate agents with source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, specifications, and quality gates through APIs, MCP, and custom tools.
- Implement guardrails, sandboxing, observability, tracing, replay, and feedback loops to increase agent autonomy safely.
- Spend 70% or more of the time building and experimenting with AI agents as part of the daily engineering workflow.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Production experience building core autonomous agent platform components such as execution loops, planning and task decomposition, tool-calling or MCP layers, or memory and context management.
- Production experience operating long-running autonomous agents with sandbox environments, state checkpointing and resumption, failure recovery, loop and drift detection, and token or cost budgets.
- Deep experience with context engineering for software agents on large codebases, including code indexing and retrieval, repository maps, and context compaction with measurable task-success improvements.
- Experience with evaluation-driven agent development, including benchmarks, evaluation suites, metric-based behavior iteration, and automated verification.
- Experience deploying, extending, or integrating commercial or open-source autonomous agent platforms in enterprise environments, including custom agents, SDK or MCP extensions, and self-hosted or private deployments.
- Preferred experience with multi-agent systems, durable execution engines, published agent benchmarks, or contributions to open-source agent frameworks.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience, is desirable.
Benefits
- Dell benefits and perks include health and other benefits available through MyWellatDell.com.
- This is an onsite role in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
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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.