HPC Technical Lead

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI Full 5C (T3)

Job Family:

Technical Solutions

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Customer Engagement, High Performance Computing (HPC), Networking, Technical Strategy

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking HPC Technical Lead to help support an upcoming contract for FDA activities in College Park, MD.

PLEASE NOTE:

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

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Technical Lead is a 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, delivering technical leadership across a world-class government organization. This position will draw on your expertise in all aspects of scientific computing including HPC, storage, scientific applications, and networking infrastructure, to guide and implement solutions for a diverse scientific user community.  Under your leadership, you will be responsible for developing and implementing customer support policies and procedures with a focus on metrics driven execution to ensure that scientific and computational services are delivered to our client on time and efficiently. You must be able to simultaneously manage various duties and obligations such as project and team management to ensure customer satisfaction while enhancing the caliber of services delivered.

Primary activities include:

• Interface with federal and contractor stakeholders including both scientists and technologists to ensure technical requirements aligned to mission needs.
• Design HPC architectures in support of scientific business needs
• Serve as the senior technical authority for scientific HPC operations
• Guide and manage HPC delivery teams responsible for managing both infrastructure and scientific applications and workloads such as genomics, bioinformatics, modeling, simulation, statistical computing, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Support integration of laboratory instruments, scientific workstations, private networks, middleware, and specialized scientific software.
• 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:

• Citizenship: Work visa sponsorship will NOT be provided.

• Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical field.
• Year’s Experience: 5+ years of experience in HPC engineering, scientific computing, bioinformatics platforms, or advanced research infrastructure.
• Technical Skills:
  • Experience with High-Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Expertise with Linux environments, HPC schedulers, GPUs, and peta-scale storage systems.
  • Experience supporting research computing users and their associated workloads.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to scientists, engineers, and program stakeholders.
  • Experience managing people
• 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 core HPC tooling including schedulers (e.g., slurm, TORQUE/Moab), storage (e.g., GPFS, Lustre), and advanced HPC networking (e.g., MPI, Infiniband).
  • Experience with genomics, next‑generation sequencing, or bioinformatics pipelines.
  • Experience performance tuning user workloads (e.g., job sizing, code porting, compilation, parallelization, GPU acceleration).
  • 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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● Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
● 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.
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY:
Explore a career in program management at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results.

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The likely salary range for this position is $211,531 - $286,189. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

50-75%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA MD College Park - Customer Proprietary (MDC016)

Additional Work Locations:

USA MD Gaithersburg - 9801 Washingtonian Blvd Suite 200 (MDS073)

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

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