• Job Description

  Req#: RQ161279

  Type of Requisition:

  Regular

  Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

  None

  Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

  Secret

  Suitability:

  Public Trust/Other Required:

  None

  Job Family:

  Scientists

  Job Qualifications:

  Skills:

  Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), High Performance Computing (HPC), HPC, Software Development

  Certifications:

  Experience:

  8 + years of related experience

  US Citizenship Required:

  Yes

  Job Description:

  GDIT is seeking an HPC Computational Scientist to support the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) User Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET). As an HPC Computational Scientist/Engineer, you will join a team of innovative and savvy engineers and scientists, focusing on building collaborative relationships with the HPC community to better understand their technology needs and challenges. Our team of computational scientists help solve the HPC challenges for DoD scientists and engineers.

  The HPCMP PET team was created to provide expert computational support for users of the supercomputing computing systems within the DoD. The team serves as a customer-facing presence for the DoD science and technology community, providing SME advice for new initiatives, ongoing projects, and support needs.

  HOW AN HPC SCIENTIST WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

  • Engage with HPC community to build an understanding of HPC needs (both current and future) and stay current with new technology solutions and optimizations

  • Drive exploration and innovation of new technologies and capabilities relevant to HPC computing and collaborate with other technical teams to evaluate for future implementation.

  • Innovative mindset: Push to understand needs in-depth and think broadly and creatively about solutions.

  • Organization: Track and manage tasks across concurrent efforts with different customer groups, and ensure delivery is on schedule and as planned.

  • Trust: Ability to build and maintain trust of our team and customer base.

  • Science: Be able to understand (at a high-level) what is driving research and how HPC can best support and enable this.

  • Attending or leading meetings and discussions with team members and customers to troubleshoot complicated technical problems and brainstorm ways to continuously improve our services.

  • Working closely with other team members and your Team Lead to enhance and expand fundamental HPC capabilities and complete technical projects.

  • Occasionally present to senior leadership on HPC best practices, new and interesting cloud technologies, other relevant advances (such as AI/ML), and ways you approached and solved challenging technical issues

  WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
  ● Education: Masters of Science (PhD preferred)
  ● Required Experience: 8+ years of related experience (Minimum of 2 years of relevant HPC experience)
  ● Required Technical Skills:

  • Experience working on technology projects, which includes meeting the schedule on time and managing customer expectations

  • Familiarity with commonly used HPC services (i.e. high performance file systems, modules for installing applications, compilers, MPI, OpenMP, profiling tools)
  ● Security Clearance Level: Must be a US citizen and be eligible for a DoD Secret clearance
  ● Required Skills and Abilities:

  • Ability to clearly present ideas to both technical and non-technical users

  • Experience analyzing solutions components, understanding systems integration challenges, and identifying technology gaps that must be resolved to reach performance targets and functionality requirements
  ● Preferred Skills: Background in Computer Science or in physics-based computation, such computational structural mechanics (CSM); computational electromagnetics and acoustics (CEA); computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is beneficial.
  ●**US Citizenship Required

  
  GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
  ● Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
  ● 401K with company match
  ● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  ● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
  ● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
  ● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
  ● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

  #GDITArmy

  #HPCPET

  #GDITpriority

  The likely salary range for this position is $96,000 - $144,000. 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:

  Less than 10%

  Telecommuting Options:

  Remote

  Work Location:

  Any Location / Remote

  Additional Work Locations:

  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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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.

  We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

  We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

  GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

• About the company

  General Dynamics Mission Systems is a business unit of American defense and aerospace company General Dynamics. General Dynamics Mission Systems integrates secure communication and information systems and technology

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