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High Performance Computing (HPC) Engineer

at GovCIO

📍 Remote, US Remote 💰 $150K – $190K USD / year Posted March 17, 2026
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Position Details

Salary $150K – $190K USD / year
Type Contract
Experience mid
Exp. Years 3+ years
Education Not specified
Category Science & Research

About this role

This role involves supporting and optimizing HPC environments for scientific research, focusing on performance tuning, cluster management, and parallel application development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support HPC environments
  • Optimize application performance
  • Manage cluster resources
  • Assist researchers with code adaptation
  • Develop HPC best practices

Technical Overview

Expertise in HPC architectures, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, cluster management, and scientific computing workflows.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a mid-level HPC engineer with experience in scientific computing, parallel programming, and cluster management, capable of supporting advanced research workloads.

Must-Have Skills

Experience with HPC environmentsKnowledge of parallel programming modelsExperience with cluster managementSupport scientific research computing

Nice-to-Have Skills

GPU programmingCUDAMPIOpenMPCluster architecture design

Tools & Platforms

MPIOpenMPCUDACluster Management Tools

Required Skills

High Performance ComputingHPCMPIOpenMPCUDACluster ManagementGPU OptimizationParallel ProgrammingScientific ComputingData Analytics

Hard Skills

High Performance ComputingHPCMPIOpenMPCUDACluster ManagementGPU OptimizationParallel ProgrammingJob SchedulingPerformance TuningScientific ComputingData AnalyticsCluster ArchitectureHigh-speed Storage

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-solvingTechnical SupportCommunicationTeamworkResearch Support

Industry & Role

Industry Government/Public Sector, Scientific Research
Job Function High performance computing support and optimization
Role Subtype HPC Engineer
Tech Domains High Performance Computing, Linux

Keywords for Your Resume

high performance computingHPCMPIOpenMPCUDAcluster managementGPU optimizationparallel programmingscientific computingdata analyticscluster architectureperformance tuningresearch computinghigh-speed storagescientific researchdata analysissystem optimizationresearch support

Deal Breakers

No HPC experience, Lack of parallel programming knowledge, No experience with cluster management, Less than 3 years of relevant experience

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