Lead Systems Architect – Next-Gen AI Data Platforms

Job description

Lead Systems Architect – Next-Gen AI Data Platforms

Join us as a Principal Member of Technical Staff on our Lightning team in Israel to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact. As a core member of Dell’s elite innovation unit, you will architect and build next-generation AI/HPC storage platforms enabling massive-scale "AI Factories."

You will operate as a deep technical leader, influencing architecture and solving complex system-level challenges across distributed filesystems and performance engineering. 

What you’ll achieve

As a member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for designing and building next-generation distributed storage systems for AI and HPC workloads, focusing on extreme performance and scalability. You will work with product architects and global engineering teams on advanced filesystems, data services, and performance-critical platform innovations.

You will:

• Architect extreme-scale distributed storage systems tailored for AI model training and large-scale GPU clusters.

• Design and develop high-performance, multi-threaded components in C/C++ on Linux/Unix platforms.

• Lead the evolution of parallel filesystems (Lustre, GPFS) and scale-out NAS architectures.

• Drive end-to-end performance analysis and optimization, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in I/O paths and memory usage.

• Partner with product architects and senior leadership to translate complex customer requirements into scalable, resilient technical solutions.

Every team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience in designing distributed storage systems, filesystems, or high-performance computing (HPC) platforms.

• Deep expertise in Linux/Unix operating systems, specifically in memory management, concurrency, and kernel-level I/O stacks.

• Advanced proficiency in C/C++ development for multi-threaded, low-latency system environments.

• Hands-on experience with high-performance protocols such as RDMA (InfiniBand/RoCE) and NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF).

• Strong technical leadership skills with experience guiding architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in globally distributed teams.

Desirable Requirements

• Expertise in parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS, CephFS) and optimizing data ingestion pipelines for large-scale AI/GPU workloads.

• Experience with modern cloud-native storage, including Kubernetes/CSI, and a history of contributions to technical IP, patents, or industry standards.

Here’s our story; now tell us yours

Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build a brighter digital tomorrow. Our company is made up of more than 150,000 people, located in over 180 locations around the world. We’re proud to be a diverse and inclusive team and have an endless passion for our mission to drive human progress.

What’s most important to us is that you are respected, feel like you can be yourself and have the opportunity to do the best work of your life -- while still having a life. We offer excellent benefits, bonus programs, flexible work arrangements, a variety of career development opportunities, employee resource groups, and much more.

We started with computers, but we didn’t stop there. We are helping customers move into the future with multi-cloud, AI and machine learning through the most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. Join us and become a part of what’s next in technology, starting today.

You can also learn more about us by reading our latest Diversity and Inclusion Report and our plan to make the world a better place by 2030 here.

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