Freelance High Performance Computing Engineer Jobs in Washington

Job Summary:
DCCA is a veteran-owned IT business specializing in providing innovative solutions to government agencies and commercial enterprises. They are seeking a High Performance Computing Systems Engineer 3 to provide technical leadership and develop system architecture for critical IT solutions, ensuring the integrity and efficiency of their high-performance computing systems.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzes user’s requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop system requirements specifications. Analyzes system requirements and leads design and development activities. Guides users in formulating requirements, advises alternative approaches, and conducts feasibility studies.
• Provides technical leadership for the integration of requirements, design, and technology. Incorporates new plans, designs and systems into ongoing operations. Develops technical documentation.
• Develops system Architecture and system design documentation. Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans.
• Interacts with the Government regarding Systems Engineering technical considerations and for associated problems, issues or conflicts. Ultimate responsibility for the technical integrity of work performed and deliverables associated with the Systems Engineering area of responsibility.
• Communicates with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives. Provides system engineering services and support HPC System Design & Engineering organization in support of the HPC CAPBILITIES program.
• Support the team’s efforts to develop and maintain the architectural direction and methods of HPC systems to include aspects of compute, memory, interconnect, network, and storage architectures to meet current and future mission requirements.
• Support the development, test, and integration of commercial and custom HPC computing solutions as needed to support the overall HPC mission.
• Support and provide rigorous end-to-end systems engineering services through the entire HPC development and acquisition life cycle.
• Develop program level requirements management process and establish a requirements baseline to tailor for each system
• Contribute to and/or deliver systems engineering documentation at both program and system level
• Develop risk management process to include risk management plan and risk register
• Propose and evolve HPC Architectural Concepts and features such as:
• Ensure consistency with strategic plans and commercial vendor roadmaps.
• Analyze and document alternatives among competing architectures.
• Justify architectural elements based on mission applications and proxies.
• Deliver documentation of architecture, including description of unique architectural features and diagrams that illustrate structure and functions of architecture.
• Specify, recommend, and/or analyze various aspects of HPC systems including:
• Processor and/or Accelerator technology, features, and performance
• Interconnect and network performance, fabric topology, technology, features and performance, including applicability for specific algorithms of interest.
• Memory capacity and bandwidth
• Storage hierarchy, capacity, technology, and performance
• HPC- facing network structure, technology, features, and performance
• Manufacturability, reliability, availability, serviceability, sustainability
• Establish, expand, and/or focus the mission application performance of each architecture concept, supported by abstract modeling where appropriate.
Qualifications:
Required:
• An active TS/SCI w/Poly
• A High School Diploma or GED plus fourteen (14) years of general system engineering experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university plus six (6) years of systems engineering experience
• A Master’s degree in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university required plus four (4) years of systems engineering experience
• A PhD in a Qualified Engineering Field or a related discipline from an accredited college or university required plus four (4) years of systems engineering experience
Preferred:
• Ability to use the Atlassian Suite products (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Capability to use CAMEO
• Certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+
Company:
DCCA provides database, systems development and related information technology services. Founded in 1982, the company is headquartered in Ellicott City, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.