HPC Architect - Scientific Computing Leader

General Dynamics - IT; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics - IT (GDIT) is seeking an HPC Technical Lead to guide the architecture, optimization, and evolution of FDA scientific computing in College Park, MD (primary office) or Gaithersburg, MD. You will bridge scientific needs with advanced computing, lead HPC clusters, storage, cloud/hybrid environments, and performance engineering, and mentor researchers and engineers.

This role is contingent on contract award with an expected start in January 2027 and requires clearances and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field required; Master’s/PhD preferred.
• 10–12+ years of HPC engineering or scientific computing experience.
• Strong expertise with Linux environments, HPC schedulers, and large-scale storage systems.

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.

Skills

Linux environments

HPC schedulers

Parallel computing

GPU acceleration

Performance optimization

Scientific computing

Communication with scientists

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Slurm

TORQUE/Moab

GPFS

Lustre

MPI

Containerized environments

Job description

General Dynamics - IT (GDIT) is seeking an HPC Technical Lead to guide the architecture, optimization, and evolution of FDA scientific computing in College Park, MD (primary office) or Gaithersburg, MD. You will bridge scientific needs with advanced computing, lead HPC clusters, storage, cloud/hybrid environments, and performance engineering, and mentor researchers and engineers.

This role is contingent on contract award with an expected start in January 2027 and requires clearances and