Job description

High Performance Computing Engineer

Praxis recently was awarded a prime contract to perform High Performance Computing (HPC) support for a restricted customer and a few 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 supercomputing clusters, GPGPUs, FPGAs, ASICs (pronounced /A-Six/), and Kubernetes clusters enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems.

What you will be doing

The HPC Engineer performs system-level analysis and design, trade studies of system components, recommendation of engineering approaches, architectures and solutions, and support for implementation, test and deployment of systems. Designs, develops and tests HPC solutions in embedded or real-time software, signal processing algorithms.

What you will need

• Provides system administration duties on Linux based HPC clusters; including cluster management, virtualization, cluster usage monitoring, health monitoring, job scheduling, and application integration/installation.
• Compiles, configures, and integrates GOTS, COTS, and open source codes/applications into HPC environments.
• Implements and manages high performance parallel file systems, e.g., Lustre.
• Implements and manages high performance interconnect technologies such as, Infiniband and Aries interconnects.
• Implements and manages computational accelerator technologies such as, GPGPU, FPGA, ASIC, and Xeon Phi.
• Improves cluster performance through kernel changes, firmware updates, library stack changes, and application container management such as Singularity, Kurbernetes or Docker.
• Implements and captures HPC metrics and benchmarks such as user metrics, resource metrics, job types and sizes, node utilization, etc.
• Implements and manages job schedulers such as Moab and Slurm.
• The High Performance Computing Engineer has either an M.S.E.E., or other technical degree, with nine years of professional experience, a B.S.E.E., or other technical degree, with a minimum of twelve years of professional experience, or no degree with a minimum of fifteen years of professional experience.

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

**COVID-19 Vaccination: Praxis does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to all employees. To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, however, Praxis may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.**

Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.

With over 350 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.

*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.

Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.

And then there is the...

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
• Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Parental leave
• 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (4%) and employer match (up to 4%) for a total of 8%.
• Annual bonus plan
• Four weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility
• Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
• Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
• Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
• Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.

• We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.

Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Self-determined schedule

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• System administration: 6 years (Required)
• HPC environments: 6 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Work Location: In person

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