Principal Systems Engineer

Swift • Annapolis Junction, MD

10d • Onsite

About The Position

For the OPS Consulting team, ‘the power to help’ means helping our clients, helping serve the mission, helping our employees and their families, and helping the community. Headquartered in Hanover, MD. OPS Consulting has over two decades of experience specializing in the most mission-critical operations. We are thought leaders and innovators. The ingenuity of our developers, engineers, cyber experts, linguists, and analysts are dedicated to empowering our clients, fulfilling The Mission, and remaining trusted leaders and advisers in national security and technology solutions. OPS Consulting is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to work in Laurel, Maryland. The Principal Engineer (PE) will provide oversight to tactical engineering activities to accomplish system goals to include coordinating and participating in design meetings and technical reviews. The PE will support HPC installation and deployment while working as lead system engineer supporting and achieving HPC program goals.

Requirements

• Three (3) years of experience with an agency or HPC development program.
• Fifteen (15) years of experience in technical roles for Government or industry customer.
• Ten (10) years of experience as a system engineer supporting programs to develop and field large- scale systems to include expertise in system architecture, requirements analysis, system documentation, system evaluation, and process execution and evaluation.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
• May substitute four (4) years relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• A current government clearance, background investigation, and polygraph are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight to tactical engineering activities to accomplish system goals to include coordinating and participating in design meetings and technical reviews.
• Support HPC installation and deployment while working as lead system engineer supporting and achieving HPC program goals.
• Specialized expertise in logical architecture assessment, quantum algorithm simulation, architecture-aware performance modeling, ISA/compiler analysis, and system-level benchmarking is required to assess algorithms of interest on a functional representation of a target quantum system.
• Analyze and refine functional system models, incorporating the relevant ISA specification, and performing compiler-level analysis to map algorithms onto the architecture.
• Assess structural code-framework issues and resolving remaining ISA/compiler integration issues needed for realistic simulation.
• Generate credible performance estimates, identify capability gaps in proposed architectures and simulation capabilities, connect architectural assumptions to algorithm outcomes, and support mission-informed assessment of system capability.

What This Job Offers

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