Sr. Staff HPC Linux Engineer

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We are looking for you to join our team as an HPC Linux Engineer based out of Woodland Hills, CA. As an HPC Linux Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter.  Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation.  The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

What You’ll get to Do:

Northrop Grumman is one of the industry leaders in Advanced Computing. As such, we are involved in all phases of development, production, and maintenance of High Performing Computers/Labs. We are currently looking for experienced HPC Linux staff to work on a variety of challenging issues. One area where we are in the need of talent is in HPC Linux Software Engineering.

As a HPC Linux Software Engineer, you will perform tasks that include:

• Perform system administration tasks
• Manage HPC system life cycle: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal
• Perform HPC technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk evaluation, and supportability and effectiveness analyses
• Monitor and report HPC system health/metrics. Identify performance bottlenecks. Modify system wide parameters to improve performance. Evaluate effects of those changes. Gather data and report finding to senior HPC engineers
• Assist software developers to install, fine-tune, and debug software
• Manage/Assist technical users running analysis on HPC systems
• Collaborate with Security and follow its guideline to design and implement cybersecurity solutions

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Basic Qualifications:

• 20 years of experience with a Bachelors degree; 18 years of experience with Masters; 15 Years with a PhD; an additional 4 years of experience can be considered in lieu of a degree
• Working experience with C, C++, and Python programming languages
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain DoD 8570 (Security+) certification
• Active DoD Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS Clearance as condition of continued employment
• Ability to be cleared to special access programs
• Experience with RedHat Enterprise Linux OS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master of Science degree in Computer engineering, computer science, or system engineering discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Good written and verbal communication, mentoring experience, and good interpersonal skills.
• Prior experience working with clusters or supercomputers.
• Hands-on experience HPC hardware diagnostic and repair
• Experience with Software compilation process (compilers, GNU Make, CMake…etc)
• Familiar with cybersecurity requirements and methodologies.
• Working knowledge of JSIG and STIG.
• Experience with various MPI implementations, IntelMPI, OpenMPI, MPICH
• Experience with InfiniBand and the InfiniBand protocol
• Experience with Nvidia CUDA libraries and GPUs
• Experience with job schedulers, such as Slurm or PBS
• Experience with global and parallel files systems, such as Lustre
• Familiarity with HPC cluster management solutions, such as Bright or OpenHPC

Salary Range: $178,700 USD - $268,100 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

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