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Solutions Engineer/Systems Architect - SME

Praxis Engineering
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/8/2026

Solutions Engineer/Systems Architect - SME

 

Praxis successfully delivers a prime contract supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) for a restricted customer and select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfacing IT infrastructures committed to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing clustered super computing CPUs and GPUs, software defined storage, and advanced networking enabling high fidelity, advanced scientific modeling and data analytics. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems to meet mission requirements.

 

What you will be doing

Coordinates, reviews, and integrates the deliverables of information and technology architectures into cohesive solutions. Provides creative and innovative architectural solutions to rapidly evolving and continuously advancing technologies to meet mission requirements. Reviews and assesses impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures. Willingness and passion to learn new hardware/software systems that are consistent with duties. Engage staff, clients, partners and stakeholders to define the operational and future roadmap for the future High Performance Computing environment including compute, networking, interconnection, storage and client interfaces to these capabilities. Works with senior business and technical personnel to deliver a robust scalable architecture and High Performance Computing solutions that meet the mission needs of the enterprise.

What you will need

  • Track record of delivering results.
  • Perform system-level analysis and design, trade studies of system components, recommendation of engineering approaches, and architectures and solutions to advance the state of the High Performance Computing environments.
  • Support for analysis, planning, implementation, test and deployment of highly complex production systems.
  • Previous professional responsibility of developing strategies and strategic plans.
  • Designing, developing and testing of embedded or real-time software, signal processing algorithms, High Performance Computing solutions, and developing software or device drivers for special-purpose hardware.
  • Designing and developing solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.
  • Analyzing scientific, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to electronic data processing systems.
  • Previous experience documenting and presenting system architectures and plans to gain acceptance and approval from stake holders including front office staff, mission partners, information security boards, data center management, etc.
  • Analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
  • Significant experience with architectural analysis, design and implementation of scalable computing, clustering systems, networking and storage systems delivered as a fabric.
  • Analyzing or recommending commercially available hardware and software solutions.
  • Demonstrated success in automating processes and virtualization.
  • M.S.E.E., M.S.C.S. or other technical degree, with a minimum of nine years of relevant professional experience, a B.S.E.E., B.S.C.S. or other technical degree, with a minimum of twelve years of relevant professional experience, or no degree with a minimum of twenty years of relevant professional experience. 

 

Clearance

Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role

 

Salary range:
$138,894.00 - $307,825.00 (Annually)*

Req ID- PRX 25-934

Salary : $138,894 - $307,825

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