# HPC Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Rockville, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,250 - $166,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an HPC Engineer to join a Scientific Computing team supporting high-performance computing (HPC) and scientific research at NIAID.

This role focuses on administration and support of HPC systems, scientific software, and user-facing services, with particular emphasis on installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting software and module environments used by scientific researchers.

Biomedical research activities for a major federal health agency depend on the technologies and services you’ll support in your role here at GDIT.

**Responsibilities:**

- Administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux-based HPC infrastructure, including compute nodes, login nodes, storage systems, InfiniBand networking, and supporting services.

- Support the deployment, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management of HPC hardware, operating systems, and core infrastructure components.

- Assist with datacenter activities including hardware configuration, cabling, component replacement, and system validation during deployments and upgrades.

- Monitor system health, investigate performance issues, and help ensure the reliability, availability, and security of shared HPC resources.

- Support job scheduler operations, resource management, and troubleshooting of compute, storage, and networking issues affecting HPC users.

- Collaborate with engineering team members to plan, test, and implement infrastructure upgrades, maintenance activities, and new HPC technologies.

- Assist with the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of scientific software, compilers, libraries, and module environments to support research workloads.

- Develop and maintain operational documentation, automation scripts, and standard procedures that improve the efficiency and reliability of HPC operations.

- Work closely with scientific support staff to resolve infrastructure-related issues impacting scientific workflows and user productivity.

**Required Skills:**

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, scientific computing, bioinformatics, or a related field and at least 5 years of related experience.

- Experience supporting Linux systems in HPC, research computing, or similar technical environments

- Familiarity with datacenter best practices, server hardware, and basic networking components is preferred.

- Experience installing and supporting scientific applications, compilers, libraries, and module systems

- Working knowledge of job schedulers such as Slurm and shared compute environments

- Experience troubleshooting user issues across software, environment, and workflow layers

- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar

- Familiarity with software build and package management tools such as Spack, EasyBuild etc

- Exposure to containers such as Apptainer/Singularity

- Experience supporting scientific workflows in bioinformatics, computational biology, chemistry, physics, or related domains

- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities

The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- HPC
- Scientific Software
- Bash
- Python
- Slurm
- Spack
- EasyBuild
- Apptainer/Singularity

### Nice to have
- datacenter best practices
- server hardware
- basic networking components
- hardware installation and maintenance

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