Principle Federal HPC Technical Consultant; Clearance TS​/SCI Poly MD or Utah

Job Description

Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. Responsible for technical support and leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and for understanding customers’ businesses. As a trusted advisor, create and maintain effective customer relationships to insure customer satisfaction.

Maintain knowledge of leading‑edge technologies and industry/market domain knowledge. Actively contribute to the company’s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects. Shape technical direction and strategy within the organization and for external customers. Accountable for consistent and significant chargeability levels (or expense relief for internal project teams) and for assisting in meeting or exceeding revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

Contribute to organization’s profitability by generating new business opportunities and providing technical support for deal proposal development. Visible technical impact on products or major subcomponents. Apply in‑depth professional knowledge to solve complex problems and improve time‑to‑market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs.

Provide technical leadership for significant project/program work. Lead or participate in cross‑functional initiatives and contribute to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization. Provide technical support for operational and strategic HPC projects, including troubleshooting and resolving complex multi‑vendor HPC infrastructure challenges.

Strong Linux experience required.

• Lead the technical implementation planning 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 closely 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.
• 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).
• 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.

Must be able and willing to travel up to 30% of the time, with possible extended trips depending on client needs. Employees will be required to travel and work at the customer site when necessary. Remote work is primarily from home with onsite travel as required.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a 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.
• 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.), large‑scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph).
• Experience with network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot, etc.).
• Storage knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, disk partitioning (GPT, M ).
• Exposure to open source community and software.
• Knowledge of shared storage like…