Principal Federal HPC Technical Consultant; Clearance TS​/SCI Poly MD

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We value varied backgrounds and provide flexibility for work and personal needs. We make bold moves together and are a force for good.

Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. Responsible for technical support and leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions that meet customers’ business needs and advance HPE’s solutions portfolio. Act as a trusted advisor, create and maintain effective customer relationships, and contribute to technical direction and strategy within the organization and for external customers.

• Strong Linux experience required
• Lead the technical implementation planning and delivery of world-class 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 in close collaboration 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.
• Work on both operational support and strategic HPC projects; actively participate in customer user group environments.
• 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).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, multi‑vendor HPC infrastructure challenges.
• 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.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or 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.
• Must be a United States Citizen due to the responsibilities and requirements of the role as this will be supporting a Federal site.
• Top Secret Clearance, TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP).
• Must be willing to travel as the business dictates.
• Preferred location is MD or Utah, but for candidates that meet the qualifications, this role may be open to other locations within the US, as long as candidate is willing to travel.
• Demonstrates 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.), or large‑scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph).
• Experience with Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc).
• Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, M ).
• Exposure to Open‑source community and software.
• Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, Spectrum Store and High Availability solutions is a plus.
• Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and Git Hub.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local…