Senior Principal Electrical Engineer - FPGA Development

Dell Technologies builds infrastructure solutions, hardware, and software for enterprise-scale computing and data management. The Senior Principal Electrical Engineer will lead FPGA development across the lifecycle, collaborating with architects, electrical and firmware engineers, global teams, and industry partners to deliver scalable PCBA technologies and logic solutions. The role also involves defining development processes, guiding designs, troubleshooting systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring quality.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other architects to design the next-generation hardware features in partnership with front end teams and industry partners; drive feature and cost trade-off analysis to provide technical recommendations
• Provide design direction to enable and support global teams; design, develop and implement cost effective methods of testing and troubleshooting systems and equipment
• Mentor team members across global teams
• Define and optimize development processes using the latest development tools and approaches
• Prepare documentation for inspection/testing procedures, review and direct designs to ensure the highest quality designs

Requirements:

• 12+ years' industry experience in related roles or have equivalent skill; must include product development experience from early concept through production
• Advanced understanding of FPGA technologies, appropriate system architectures, Verilog/System Verilog and hardware description language (HDL) coding practices
• Expertise in design, register-transfer level (RTL) design and simulation test benches
• Strong fundamentals in both analog and digital design practices with desire to share knowledge and mentor others
• Deep knowledge of hardware and software interactions, and ability to apply this understanding to resolve issues
• Strong background in x86/ARM architectures with hands‑on experience using FPGA and verification toolchains (Lattice/Xilinx/Altera, Synopsys VCS), scripting languages (Python/Batch), and Git‑based workflow management
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted development, including AI‑driven HDL coding, machine‑learning‑based verification to boost simulation and test coverage, and AI‑optimized FPGA design workflows