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Lockheed Martin provides Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/SE Linux based HPC services throughout the lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. Our employees embrace innovation and are committed to a culture of continuous, standards-driven process improvement and assimilation of industry best practices. The program provides key supercomputing capabilities for solving important problems in science and technology. This work involves working on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems. 

We are seeking a mid-career level HPC Software Engineer that will work in a High Performance Computing (HPC) Research and Development (R&D) customer contract.  The candidate will be an active member of the Technical User Support (TUS) team, interacting with the team, TUS team lead, program Chief Scientist, Customers, users, and site staff while on-site with a specific R&D customer.

The TUS team is responsible for working with HPC users to achieve faster "time to science". You will work closely with the users to port, optimize, and parallelize codes to the users’ requirements. 

You will mentor junior members of the TUS and broader HPC teams, providing technical guidance, code‑review sessions, and career‑development advice. You will also design and deliver training workshops, tutorials, and documentation to help end‑users and internal staff adopt HPC tools, best‑practice coding standards, and performance‑tuning techniques.

In order to be successful in this role, you will have a degree (BS) in a STEM related discipline with solid mathematics and/or physics background and experience in some combination of modeling and simulation, Fortran and/or C languages, Python, Korn, BASH, and/or Perl scripting, compilers, software benchmarking, system analysis, algorithm and/or software design.

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Plans, conducts, and coordinates software development activities. Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to business/mission problems or questions in computer language for solutions by means of data processing equipment. Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle. Applies knowledge of computer hardware and software, subject matter to be programmed in business/mission applications, information processing techniques used, and information gathered from system users to develop software. Corrects program errors, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls. Ensures software standards are met.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM related discipline and a minimum of 10 years of professional level experience

• Around 5 years of experience developing and using modeling and simulation software in heterogeneous, multi-platform environments

• Working with HPC users workflow for  mod/sim problems and GUIs

• Knowledge of High Performance Computing (HPC) environment and related technologies

• Demonstrated proficiency with Fortran, C, and/or C++

• Demonstrated proficiency with BASH and Korn

• Linux Operating System proficiency, ability to solve end-user computer system problems while working independently in a lab environment.

• Proficiency in basic software practices such as coding standards, unit testing, and configuration management

• Strong ability to analyze, debug, and maintain the integrity of an existing code base

• Experience designing and delivering training workshops, tutorials, or onboarding material for HPC users and internal staff

Active Top Secret/SCI with a CI Poly to start.

Desired Skills

• Experience mentoring junior engineers or scientists, providing technical guidance, and conducting code review sessions

• Revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git)

• Build/install tools (e.g. CMake, Makefile, autoconf)

• Experience with Python and Perl

• GPU programming experience (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL)

• Agile process and JIRA

• AI/ML/Neural Networks experience

• Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work

• Superior programming skills and excellent attention to 
detail

• Strong communication skills a results-oriented team player, creative thinker, and problem-solver

• Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice