HPC Software Engineer

Patriot, LLC•Colorado Springs, CO

5d•$134,000 - $235,000•Onsite

About The Position

Patriot is seeking a mid-career level High Performance Computing (HPC) Software Engineer to join our Space team. This role involves providing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. The program supports key supercomputing capabilities for scientific and technological problem-solving, utilizing cutting-edge HPC technologies to ensure scientists and engineers can fully leverage modern HPC systems. The candidate will be an active member of the Technical User Support (TUS) team, interacting with team members, the TUS team lead, program Chief Scientist, customers, users, and site staff while on-site with a specific R&D customer. The TUS team's goal is to help users achieve faster "time to science" by working closely with them to port, optimize, and parallelize codes according to their requirements. The role also includes mentoring junior team members, designing and delivering training workshops, tutorials, and documentation. The position is on-site with a customer focused on their workflow, modeling and simulation, and data requirements, collaborating with the Chief Scientist and TUS team lead to design and implement solutions. Responsibilities also include system performance analysis through benchmarking, tuning libraries, and focusing on scientific modeling, numerical processes, and other scientific software issues. The engineer will investigate, analyze, and recommend solutions for user codes and other HPC software issues, adhering to best practices for the program's HPC resources, storage systems, and secure computing environment, and assisting users with production shared resources, scheduling systems, and high-performance data storage.

Requirements

Current U.S. Citizenship and Active Top Secret/SCI with a CI Poly required to start.
Bachelor's degree in STEM related discipline and a minimum of 10 years of professional level experience
Around 5 years of experience developing and using modeling and simulation software in heterogeneous, multi-platform environments
Working with HPC users workflow for mod/sim problems and GUIs
Knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies
Demonstrated proficiency with Fortran, C, and/or C++
Demonstrated proficiency with BASH and Korn
Linux Operating System proficiency, ability to solve end-user computer system problems while working independently in a lab environment.
Proficiency in basic software practices such as coding standards, unit testing, and configuration management
Strong ability to analyze, debug, and maintain the integrity of an existing code base
Experience designing and delivering training workshops, tutorials, or onboarding material for HPC users and internal staff
Demonstrated flexible, adaptive, problem-solving ability.
A degree (BS) in a STEM related discipline with solid mathematics and/or physics background and experience in some combination of modeling and simulation, Fortran and/or C languages, Python, Korn, BASH, and/or Perl scripting, compilers, software benchmarking, system analysis, algorithm and/or software design.

Nice To Haves

Experience mentoring junior engineers or scientists, providing technical guidance, and conducting code review sessions
Revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git)
Build/install tools (e.g. CMake, Makefile, autoconf)
Experience with Python and Perl
GPU programming experience (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL)
Agile process and JIRA
AI/ML/Neural Networks experience
Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work
Superior programming skills and excellent attention to detail
Strong communication skills a results-oriented team player, creative thinker.

Responsibilities

Provide Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers.
Work on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems.
Work in a High Performance Computing (HPC) Research and Development (R&D) customer contract.
Be an active member of the Technical User Support (TUS) team, interacting with the team, TUS team lead, program Chief Scientist, Customers, users, and site staff while on-site with a specific R&D customer.
Work closely with users to port, optimize, and parallelize codes to the users’ requirements.
Mentor junior members of the TUS and broader HPC teams, providing technical guidance, code-review sessions, and career-development advice.
Design and deliver training workshops, tutorials, and documentation to help end-users and internal staff adopt HPC tools, best-practice coding standards, and performance-tuning techniques.
Design and implement solutions to meet the customer’s requirements, working with the program Chief Scientist, TUS team lead, and others.
Perform system performance analysis through benchmarking and tuning libraries.
Focus on scientific modeling, numerical processes, and other scientific software issues.
Investigate, analyze and make recommendations regarding user codes and other HPC software issues.
Utilize best practices needed to take full advantage of the program’s HPC resources, research storage systems, and secure computing environment.
Help users adapt to a production shared resource, its scheduling system, and its high performance data storage systems.