HPC Technical Lead

Public Trust: MBI Full 5C (T3)

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to be on the frontlines of health innovation. Deliver for America’s health agency missions and enhance lives for hundreds of millions every day.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a HPC Technical Lead supporting FDA activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects, build your skills, and grow a rewarding career.

PLEASE NOTE:

• This position is contingent upon contract award, expected to start in January 2027.
• Work visa sponsorship will NOT be provided for this position.

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Technical Lead is the senior technical expert guiding the architecture, optimization, and evolution of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) high‑performance computing and scientific data ecosystems. This role bridges scientific research needs with advanced computing solutions, providing technical leadership across HPC clusters, parallel storage, scientific applications, cloud/HPC hybrid environments, and performance engineering. The ideal candidate combines deep hands‑on HPC experience with the ability to advise scientists and guide modernization.

• 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.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED - REQUIRED:

• Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.
• Year’s Experience: 10–12+ years of experience in HPC engineering, scientific computing, bioinformatics platforms, or advanced research infrastructure.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong experience with High-Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Strong expertise with Linux environments, HPC schedulers, parallel computing, GPUs, and large‑scale storage systems.
  • Experience optimizing scientific workloads and supporting research computing users.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to scientists, engineers, and program stakeholders.
• Location : HYBRID - Employee must be willing to report onsite in College Park, MD (primary office) or Gaithersburg, MD several days a week.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Citizenship: US Citizen
• Education: Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Scientific Computing, or related field.
• Technical Skills:
  • Experience with Slurm, TORQUE/Moab, GPFS, Lustre, MPI, or containerized scientific environments.
  • Experience with genomics, next‑generation sequencing, or bioinformatics pipelines.
  • Knowledge of cloud/HPC hybrid architectures (AWS preferred).
  • Experience supporting scientific computing in federal environments.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
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● Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
● Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

50-75%