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Senior Principal AI Engineer
196,000–269,500 / Year
Location
Austin, TX, United States
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 7, 2026
Apply by
August 31, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantFull-timeWork from Office
Job Description
**Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer**
The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as an **Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer** on our **Agentic AI Software Engineering Team** in **Austin, Texas.**
### Responsibilities
**What you’ll achieve**
We are seeking a **Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer** to help shape the future of our intelligent systems and build AI-native engineering systems and autonomous development workflows. This role focuses on designing scalable, production-ready AI solutions where LLMs can reason, use tools, and automate software engineering tasks.
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building agentic AI systems, orchestration workflows, and AI-assisted developer tooling.
**You will:**
- Design and build AI-driven engineering workflows using LLMs and autonomous agents
- Steer and validate AI coding agents to improve engineering throughput and code quality
- Develop testing, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks for AI-generated output
- Optimize context management using embeddings, retrieval, and memory strategies
- Partner with teams to deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native AI solutions
### Qualifications
**Take the first step towards your dream career**
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:
**Essential Requirements**
- 10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent skill; **must include hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems, production AI agents, or autonomous workflows**
- Strong programming skills in Python, automation tooling, and Kubernetes
- Experience with orchestration frameworks, tool calling, RAG, or evaluation frameworks
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with ability to adapt in fast-moving environments
**Compensation**
Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. **The base salary range for this position is $196,000 - $269,500.**
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-driven engineering workflows using LLMs and autonomous agents
- Steer and validate AI coding agents to improve engineering throughput and code quality
- Develop testing, evaluation, and guardrail frameworks for AI-generated output
- Optimize context management using embeddings, retrieval, and memory strategies
- Partner with teams to deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native AI solutions
Skills Required
PythonKubernetesLLM-powered systemsProduction AI agentsAutonomous workflowsOrchestration frameworksTool callingRAGEvaluation frameworksProblem solvingAdaptability
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