HPC Technical Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology • Silver Spring, NH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT is seeking an HPC Technical Lead to help support an upcoming contract for FDA Scientific Computing & Advanced Research Systems in Silver Spring, MD. This role is the senior technical expert guiding the architecture, optimization, and evolution of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) high-performance computing and scientific data ecosystems. This role bridges scientific research needs with advanced computing solutions, providing technical leadership across HPC clusters, parallel storage, scientific applications, cloud/HPC hybrid environments, and performance engineering. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on HPC experience with the ability to advise scientists and guide modernization. Serve as the senior technical authority for HPC operations, architecture, and performance optimization across compute, schedulers, networking, and storage. Support scientific workloads including genomics, bioinformatics, modeling, simulation, statistical computing, and AI/ML pipelines. Optimize user workloads through job sizing, code porting, compilation, parallelization, GPU acceleration, and performance tuning. Lead technical strategy for scientific data storage, parallel file systems, high-speed networking, data movement, and large-scale data workflows. Provide guidance on future-state HPC and hybrid cloud architectures, expansion planning, and modernization initiatives. Support integration of laboratory instruments, scientific workstations, private networks, middleware, and specialized scientific software. Coordinate with FDA scientists and computational users to ensure computing resources match scientific mission needs. Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed compute systems, storage platforms, scientific applications, and instrument-connected environments. Prepare technical documentation, configuration guidance, and engineering recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.
• 10–12+ years of experience in HPC engineering, scientific computing, bioinformatics platforms, or advanced research infrastructure.
• Strong expertise with Linux environments, HPC schedulers, parallel computing, GPUs, and large-scale storage systems.
• Experience optimizing scientific workloads and supporting research computing users.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to scientists, engineers, and program stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Scientific Computing, or related field.
• Experience with Slurm, TORQUE/Moab, GPFS, Lustre, MPI, or containerized scientific environments.
• Experience with genomics, next-generation sequencing, or bioinformatics pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud/HPC hybrid architectures (AWS preferred).
• Experience supporting scientific computing in federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for HPC operations, architecture, and performance optimization across compute, schedulers, networking, and storage.
• Support scientific workloads including genomics, bioinformatics, modeling, simulation, statistical computing, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Optimize user workloads through job sizing, code porting, compilation, parallelization, GPU acceleration, and performance tuning.
• Lead technical strategy for scientific data storage, parallel file systems, high-speed networking, data movement, and large-scale data workflows.
• Provide guidance on future-state HPC and hybrid cloud architectures, expansion planning, and modernization initiatives.
• Support integration of laboratory instruments, scientific workstations, private networks, middleware, and specialized scientific software.
• Coordinate with FDA scientists and computational users to ensure computing resources match scientific mission needs.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed compute systems, storage platforms, scientific applications, and instrument-connected environments.
• Prepare technical documentation, configuration guidance, and engineering recommendations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior