HPC Technical Lead

GDIT is seeking an HPC Technical Lead to support an upcoming contract for FDA activities in College Park, MD. The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Technical Lead is a technical expert guiding the architecture, optimization, and evolution of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) high-performance computing and scientific data ecosystems.

This role bridges scientific research needs with advanced computing solutions, delivering technical leadership across a world-class government organization. The position will draw on your expertise in all aspects of scientific computing including HPC, storage, scientific applications, and networking infrastructure, to guide and implement solutions for a diverse scientific user community.

Under your leadership, you will be responsible for developing and implementing customer support policies and procedures with a focus on metrics-driven execution to ensure that scientific and computational services are delivered to our client on time and efficiently.

Primary activities include:

• Interface with federal and contractor stakeholders including both scientists and technologists to ensure technical requirements aligned to mission needs.
• Design HPC architectures in support of scientific business needs.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for scientific HPC operations.
• Guide and manage HPC delivery teams responsible for managing both infrastructure and scientific applications and workloads such as genomics, bioinformatics, modeling, simulation, statistical computing, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Support integration of laboratory instruments, scientific workstations, private networks, middleware, and specialized scientific software.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed compute systems, storage platforms, scientific applications, and instrument-connected environments.
• Prepare technical documentation, configuration guidance, and engineering recommendations.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.
• Experience with High-Performance Computing (HPC).
• Expertise with Linux environments, HPC schedulers, GPUs, and peta-scale storage systems.
• Experience supporting research computing users and their associated workloads.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to scientists, engineers, and program stakeholders.
• Experience managing people.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Scientific Computing, or related field.
• Experience with core HPC tooling including schedulers (e.g., slurm, TORQUE/Moab), storage (e.g., GPFS, Lustre), and advanced HPC networking (e.g., MPI, Infiniband).
• Experience with genomics, next-generation sequencing, or bioinformatics pipelines.
• Experience performance tuning user workloads (e.g., job sizing, code porting, compilation, parallelization, GPU acceleration).
• Knowledge of cloud/HPC hybrid architectures (AWS preferred).
• Experience supporting scientific computing in federal environments.

Benefits: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.