Fellow

CSG Advanced Computing Fellow

Summary

The Advanced Computing Fellow is the lead strategist and architect for Dell's hardware/software co-design agenda across the Client Solutions Group (CSG).They are responsible for architecting both the internal design and aligning with our core ecosystem partners — Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Google. The Fellow translates the industry and competitive landscape into differentiated technology roadmaps and partnerships that optimize CSG's business strategies, and advises the CSG President and staff on how partner capabilities map into Dell's product roadmaps.

Operating across CSG, the Fellow shapes enterprise architecture evolution spanning AI and compute, ensuring technology opportunities are optimized and fluid across the Dell portfolio. The role is a key partner to and driver of the CSG power, performance, and thermal modeling and optimization team, ensuring Dell products lead in performance, battery life, and acoustics. As a senior technical leader, the Fellow conducts applied research and advanced engineering in the development of new products, materials, and processes, is responsible for generating intellectual property, and leads a small team of highly skilled technical professionals.

Key Responsibilities

Lead HW/SW co-design across CSG in direct alignment with core ecosystem partners — Microsoft, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Google.

Build and communicate a compelling multi-year vision for CSG platform architecture, articulating both the benefits of the target state and the competitive consequences of not reaching it, and secure commitment from the CSG President, CTO, and SVP staff to fund and execute against it.

Develop technical roadmaps and differentiated partnerships that optimize CSG's business strategies; advise the CSG President and staff on partner mapping into product roadmaps.

Serve as a key partner to, and driver of, the CSG power, performance, and thermal modeling and optimization team, ensuring Dell products lead in performance, battery life, and acoustics.

Operate across CSG on enterprise architecture evolution spanning AI and compute, ensuring fluidity and optimization of technology opportunities across the Dell fleet.

Develop and maintain long-term technical relationships with the ecosystem partner base, creating a technical interface that drives Dell's requirements into partners' next-generation designs.

Maintain a thorough understanding of partner roadmaps — including multi-year roadmaps with detailed feature trade-offs — and host regular technology reviews to ensure alignment with Dell business objectives.

Identify and develop differentiation opportunities; provide technical information and recommendations to product management, marketing, procurement, engineering, customers, and business executives.

Take a leading role in strategic internal/external technical forums; support customer briefings, presenting technical data on Dell's product and industry direction in a convincing and authoritative form.

Generate intellectual property and support Dell's legal team on intellectual property disputes.

Participate in strategic initiatives for improvements in process, quality, and cost.

Leverage AI to drive measurable productivity gains, workflow transformation, and scaled adoption across ways of working

Serve as an industry-recognized authority in client platform architecture and HW/SW co-design, representing Dell in external technical forums, standards bodies, and industry consortia.

Define the technical domains and subdomains CSG must invest in based on industry trend analysis, and shift personal and team focus as the market and partner roadmaps evolve.

Direct the research and project work of Senior Distinguished Engineers, Distinguished Engineers, and other senior technical staff within the domain.

Interacts daily with functional peer groups, senior technical staff, and executive leadership. Interaction routinely involves the presentation and exchange of complex technical and strategic information, often in an advisory capacity to business unit leaders and executives.

Leads and supervises a small team of highly skilled technical professionals in the achievement of the group's strategic and operational objectives. Assigns work, maintains schedules and workflow, and directs the efforts of team members while continuing to perform individual technical work as a hands-on senior contributor. May be responsible for hiring, staffing, and maintaining a diverse and effective workforce, including career development and planning, performance, and pay discussions for team members.

Education & Experience

Typically requires 12+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people-motivation skills (or equivalent experience). Typically requires 20+ years of related experience in a professional role with a Bachelor's degree; or 17+ years with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 14+ years of experience; or equivalent experience.