HPC Technical Lead
General Dynamics Information Technology3 days ago
Gaithersburg, MD, USA or College Park, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$212k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Interface with federal and contractor stakeholders, including scientists and technologists, to align technical requirements with mission needs.
- Design HPC architectures supporting scientific business needs.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for scientific HPC operations.
- Guide and manage teams delivering HPC infrastructure, 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.
- Develop customer support policies and procedures using metrics-driven execution.
- Prepare technical documentation, configuration guidance, and engineering recommendations.
- Manage projects and people while ensuring customer satisfaction and timely service delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of experience in HPC engineering, scientific computing, bioinformatics platforms, or advanced research infrastructure.
- Experience with HPC, Linux environments, HPC schedulers, GPUs, and peta-scale storage systems.
- Experience supporting research computing users and their workloads.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to scientists, engineers, and program stakeholders.
- Experience managing people.
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Desired qualifications include a master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Scientific Computing, or a related field.
- Desired experience includes Slurm, TORQUE/Moab, GPFS, Lustre, MPI, InfiniBand, genomics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics pipelines, workload performance tuning, GPU acceleration, AWS hybrid architectures, and scientific computing in federal environments.
- US citizenship is listed as a desired qualification, not a requirement.
Benefits
- Hybrid work requiring several onsite days per week in College Park or Gaithersburg, Maryland.
- The position is contingent upon contract award and is expected to start in March 2027.
- Scheduled work is 40 hours per week with 50–75% travel required.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, health savings account options, 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
- Additional offerings include short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
- GDIT provides career growth tools, internal mobility support, wellness resources, and a military-friendly workplace.
About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.