Senior HPC Systems Engineer — Remote

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer Principal to advance NOAA’s National Weather Service HPC operations. You will lead the day‑to‑day system administration, performance tuning, and reliability improvements for two large supercomputing systems.

You will collaborate with experienced teams to troubleshoot issues, optimize scheduling, and implement enhancements. A BA/BS and 8+ years of related experience are required, along with US citizenship and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Linux system administration experience (Rocky/SLES preferred).
• Experience with HPC batch schedulers (PBS Pro, Slurm, or similar).
• Scripting abilities (Bash, Python, Perl).
• Understanding of HPC architectures, distributed computing, and MPI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead/Manage/Support daily HPC system operations and scheduler software stacks.
• Collaborate with HPC engineers, sysadmins, developers, and NWS staff to troubleshoot issues and improve performance.
• Drive improvements in system efficiency, scheduler reliability, and throughput.
• Utilize Linux administration and HPC technologies to keep two large‑scale supercomputers running.

Skills

Complex Systems

HPC

RHEL

System Performance

Systems Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PBS Pro

Slurm

Bash

Python

MPI

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Systems Engineer Principal to advance NOAA’s National Weather Service HPC operations. You will lead the day‑to‑day system administration, performance tuning, and reliability improvements for two large supercomputing systems.

You will collaborate with experienced teams to troubleshoot issues, optimize scheduling, and implement enhancements. A BA/BS and 8+ years of related experience are required, along with US citizenship and strong