HPC Technical Lead
About The Position
GDIT is seeking an HPC Technical Lead to support an upcoming contract for FDA Scientific Computing & Advanced Research Systems in Silver Spring, MD. This role is contingent upon contract award, expected to start in January 2027. The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Technical Lead 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.
Requirements
- US Citizen or Green Card Holder
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
- 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.
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
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Variety of medical plan options
- Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 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 insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Business travel and accident insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
