HPC Software Engineer-Clearance Required

Position Overview

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more – we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation.

And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Lockheed Martin provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement and assimilation of industry best practices. The program provides key supercomputing capabilities for solving important problems in science and technology.

This work involves working on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems.

• Interact with HPC users, port, optimize, and parallelize codes to meet users’ requirements.
• Mentor junior members of the Technical User Support (TUS) and broader HPC teams, providing technical guidance, code‑review sessions, and career‑development advice.
• Design and deliver training workshops, tutorials, and documentation to help end‑users adopt HPC tools, best‑practice coding standards, and performance‑tuning techniques.
• Work on system performance analysis through benchmarking, tuning libraries, and focus on scientific modeling, numerical processes, and other scientific software issues.
• Investigate, analyze, and make recommendations regarding user codes and other HPC software issues.
• Help users adapt to a production shared resource, its scheduling system, and its high performance data storage systems.

• Bachelor's degree in STEM related discipline and a minimum of 10 years of professional level experience.
• Around 5 years of experience developing and using modeling and simulation software in heterogeneous, multi-platform environments.
• Experience working with HPC users’ workflow for mod/sim problems and GUIs.
• Knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies.
• Proficiency with Fortran, C, and/or C++.
• Proficiency with BASH and Korn.
• Linux Operating System proficiency, ability to solve end-user computer system problems while working independently in a lab environment.
• Proficiency in basic software practices such as coding standards, unit testing, and configuration management.
• Strong ability to analyze, debug, and maintain the integrity of an existing code base.
• Experience designing and delivering training workshops, tutorials, or onboarding material for HPC users and internal staff.
• Active Top Secret/SCI with a CI Poly to start.

• Experience mentoring junior engineers or scientists, providing technical guidance, and conducting code review sessions.
• Revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git).
• Build/install tools (e.g. CMake, Makefile, autoconf).
• Experience with Python and Perl.
• GPU programming experience (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL).
• Agile process and JIRA.
• AI/ML/Neural Networks experience.
• Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work.
• Superior programming skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, a results-oriented team player, creative thinker, and problem-solver.

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration. Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/Poly.

Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time. Work Schedules:
Standard Monday to Friday 40 hour work week. Lockheed Martin supports…