HPC Principal Federal Technical consultant – Clearance Required

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Principal Consultant to join our High-Performance Computing (HPC) team. In this role, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor for our customers, guiding them through the design, deployment, and optimization of advanced computing environments. You will bring deep expertise in HPC architectures, software ecosystems, and workload performance tuning to help customers achieve breakthroughs in research, engineering, and data-driven innovation.

This is a customer-facing, senior-level role with significant visibility and impact. You will not only solve complex technical problems but also help shape strategy, mentor others, and influence the future direction of our HPC solutions.

Sounds like you? Then we have the right opportunity for you!

Key Responsibilities/ What You’ll Do

• Lead the technical implementation design and delivery of world class scale HPC solutions, from requirements gathering to implementation.
• Provide architectural guidance on compute, storage, networking, and workload management tailored to customer use cases.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, associated storage, and network infrastructure.
• Work in close collaboration with customers on finalizing and deploying HPC software applications, hosting platforms, and management systems that enable customer research and production workloads.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for HPC implementation in secure locations.
• Work on both operational support and strategic HPC projects; actively participate in customer user group environments.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, middleware, and methodologies to improve operations and service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise IT security and technology controls.
• Act as principal consultant in customer engagements, often leading cross-functional project teams (including customer staff).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, multi-vendor HPC infrastructure challenges.
• Advise senior IT and research leadership on HPC strategy, best practices, and future direction.
• Collaborate with sales teams on proposals, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities, ensuring technical soundness and customer alignment.
• Mentor junior engineers and consultants, fostering knowledge sharing across the HPC practice.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 3+ in HPC architecture, systems engineering, or large-scale infrastructure design.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven ability to design and deliver complex, multi-vendor HPC solutions at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to independently complete solution implementations and application design deliverables.
• Must be United States Citizen due to the responsibilities and requirements of the role as this will be supporting a Federal site.
• Top Secret Clearance, TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP)
• Must be willing to travel as the business dictates
• Preferred location is MD or Utah, but for candidates that meet the qualifications, this role may be open to other locations within the US, as long as candidate is willing to travel
• Demonstrates broad knowledge across multiple technical domains to effectively manage complex integration efforts involving HPC and enterprise systems.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: parallel computing, MPI/OpenMP, GPU acceleration, workload schedulers (Slurm, Altair PBS Pro, Torque/MOAB, etc.), or large-scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph).
• Experience with Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc)
• Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, MBR)
• Exposure to Opensource community and software
• Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, SpectrumStore and High Availability solutions is a plus
• Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and GitHub, etc.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Should have very good systems knowledge including hardware, firmware and Operating System
• Linux systems knowledge with Python and other languages
• Good understanding of Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc)
• Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, MBR)
• Exposure to Opensource community and software
• Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, SpectrumStore and High Availability solutions is a plus
• Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and GitHub, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at management levels.

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Services

Job Level:

TCP_05

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

USD Annual Salary: $115,500.00 - $266,000.00

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