What are the responsibilities and job description for the HPC Software Engineer position at Red Arch Solutions?
Position Description:
Red Arch Solutions is hiring a Software Engineer on a priority program in Annapolis Junction, MD. The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Software Engineer shall be responsible for the design, development, optimization, and maintaining scalable parallel and distributed systems that operate in high-performance computing environments. This role requires deep expertise in parallel programming, performance optimization, Linux systems, and large-scale HPC architecture. The HPC Software Engineer shall serve as a technical leader, driving innovation, architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in advanced HPC methodologies.
Position Required Skills:
Red Arch Solutions is hiring a Software Engineer on a priority program in Annapolis Junction, MD. The High-Performance Computing (HPC) Software Engineer shall be responsible for the design, development, optimization, and maintaining scalable parallel and distributed systems that operate in high-performance computing environments. This role requires deep expertise in parallel programming, performance optimization, Linux systems, and large-scale HPC architecture. The HPC Software Engineer shall serve as a technical leader, driving innovation, architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in advanced HPC methodologies.
Position Required Skills:
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Qualifications:
Master's degree in Math, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus five (5) years of experience as an HSE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
OR
Bachelor's degree in Math, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline from an accredited college or university, plus seven (7) years of experience as an HSE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
OR
Nine (9) years of experience as an HSE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity - Experience using the Linux CLI and Linux tools
- Experience developing Bash scripts to automate manual processes
- Recent software development experience using C/C and Python
- Strong experience with parallel programming models such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA
- Deep understanding of multi-threading and concurrency, memory hierarchy and cache optimization, NUMA architectures, vectorization and SIMD
- Experience implementing and maintaining parallel and distributed algorithms optimized for scalability and performance across HPC components including CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and network layers
- SME for parallel computing strategies and statistical modeling
- Strong problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills to explain complex HPC concepts to non-specialist stakeholders
- Experience installing, configuring, optimizing, and supporting COTS/GOTS/FOSS software, libraries, and packages in a Linux environment
- Experience with Git Source Control System
- Experience with SQL technologies such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- Experience using Distributed Big Data processing engines such as Spark
- Experience with HPC schedulers such as Slurm
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, containerd, and Podman
- Experience using the Atlassian Tool Suite (JIRA, Confluence)
Salary : $217,000 - $232,000