HPC Engineer

AMERICAN SYSTEMS

United States, Virginia, Arlington

1401 South Clark Street (Show on map)

Mar 15, 2025

HPC Engineer

Location

US-VA-Arlington

ID

2025-1994

Category

Software & Systems Development

Position Type

Full-Time

Remote

Clearance Required

Top Secret/SCI

Overview

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

Responsibilities

THIS POSITION COMES WITH A 10K SIGNING BONUS!
As anHPCEngineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have an opportunity to do the followingl:

Apply comprehensive knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems, comprised of high-speed, multi-petabyte Lustre file systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, CPU/GPU compute nodes, and high performance storage arrays, using Ethernet, fiber, Omni-Path, and InfiniBand interconnections.

Provide functional and technical expertise in support of user-developed software and technical advice and leadership to other technical staff
Utilize a wide variety of skills in system and network monitoring; large-scale systems administration; scripting and automation; security compliance; network distributed services; storage and backups; and hardware and software problem diagnosis and resolution.
Diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems, often of a complex nature, associated with computer hardware and software interrelationships and dependencies.
Conduct needs analysis, planning, and scheduling the installation of a wide variety of new or modified hardware/software.
Develop functional and technical IT system requirements and specifications. Configure and optimize system tools and applications, to include job schedulers (Slurm and PBSPro) and system resources (GitLab, LUA/TCL modules, and system support applications).
Create and brief technical presentations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides. Develop user facing documentation.

Qualifications

DoD Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and ten or more years of job related experience.
Thorough knowledge of complex concepts, practices, and troubleshooting associated with HPC cluster systems design, installation, and maintenance.
Advanced knowledge in distributed computing theory, parallel processing, applications, and associated infrastructure is required.
Extensive experience with Linux/Unix systems including installation, configuration, networking, backups, updates and patching, data archiving, and system security.
Functional knowledge of HPC middleware, and platform managers such as Bright Cluster Manager; employing job schedulers such as PBS, Slurm, Torque, etc.; and, optimizing job queues.
Experience with HPC or large-scale distributed computing environments and technologies such as high-speed low-latency interconnects (e.g. InifiniBand), parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre), and virtualization environments and tools (e.g. VMWare).
Experience developing Python/bash/Perl scripts and employing automation frameworks such as Ansible.
General knowledge employing Docker containers and Kubernetes ecosystems.
Working knowledge in one or more programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Fortran, etc.)

Pay Transparency Statement

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $129,800.00/Yr. - USD $216,700.00/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.

EEO Statement

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