Sr. Principal Engineer

Qualifications

• Education and experience Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 12+ years of experience; or Master's with 8+; or PhD with 6+. 10+ years building field telemetry and data collection systems at scale, spanning millions of endpoints and thousands of data points.
• Technical depth Deep knowledge of Intel client platform architecture and OS internals across Windows and Linux, including crash and reliability paths such as BSOD, live kernel dumps, machine checks, and event logs.
• Proven software architecture skills for scalability, security, and resiliency in high-volume ingestion, storage, and analysis pipelines.
• Hands-on development experience with modern data lake and analytics stacks (Snowflake, Databricks, cloud services), plus the ability to define coding standards, tooling, and validation processes.
• Applied analytics or machine learning experience for failure classification, bucketing, de-duplication, anomaly detection, and predictive quality trending.
• Experience delivering telemetry-based validation infrastructure supporting platform onboarding, flighting, and data collection.
• Leadership and collaboration Demonstrated success driving technical direction and execution for large-scale software programs.
• Track record partnering with external parties - OEMs, Microsoft, and third-party telemetry providers - to establish new data-sharing partnerships.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams across validation, quality, product architecture, and customer enabling to turn telemetry into business action.
• Communication and presence Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical strategies to engineering and business audiences.
• Experience presenting at industry conferences and participating in standards committees.
• A passion for technical excellence and for delivering solutions that measurably improve product quality.