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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. 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 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.

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Senior Principal AI Agent Engineer
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.
What you’ll achieve
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience building agentic AI systems, orchestration workflows, and AI-assisted developer tooling.
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
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

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