HPC Software Engineer 3 - (HPC, Python, Scala)

Clearance: TS/SCI - Polygraph required
Position ID: 15-TSK-2.9-011-HSWE3
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Description:

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software for HPC (high performance computing) systems based upon documented requirements.

Requires either a very strong math background and/or a very strong computer hardware background to understand HPC architecture and the mathematical principles underlying the software applications.

HPC systems may include processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and systems incorporating data repositories, data transport services, and application and systems development and monitoring.

Works individually or as part of a team; reviews and tests software components for adherence to design requirements, documents test results, and resolves software problem reports.

Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment and provides input to system design including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, OSS/COTS/GOTS use, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Supports efforts to understand performance limitations of FOSS, COTS, and GOTS software, frameworks, and tools deployed on high performance computers, including metrics collection, testing, and informing software or hardware architecture changes.

• Design, document and execute tests of FOSS, COTS and GOTS software architectures to determine what aspects of the software and/or computer infrastructure are limiting performance
• Research and identify metrics necessary to understand performance limitations of the software and/or computer infrastructure to support testing
• Research and identify monitoring necessary to support timely alerting of infrastructure and software failures encountered during testing
• Identify hardware and software failure trends and develop mitigations encountered during testing
• Perform root cause analysis
• Work with the customer metrics and monitoring team to introduce new metrics capabilities to support testing
• Modify the software architecture and/or develop new software capabilities to overcome performance limitations encountered during testing
• Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results
• Resolve software problem reports
• Provide input to software components of system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of OSS, COTS, and GOTS software, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components

Position Required Skills:

• Strong math background and/or strong computer hardware background
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (CM) tools
• Working knowledge of Web Services implementation
• Software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment
• Ability to develop software for HPC systems

Position Desired Skills:

• Experience with distributed computing FOSS software frameworks such as Apache Spark, Dask, and Ray
• Experience developing software in Python, Scala, Java, and C

HSWE3 Qualifications:

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.

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.

Nine (9) years of experience as an HSE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

Salary Range: **$230k-$270k (Annually)

**The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications.

Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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