Job Title: HPC Engineer
Location: Maryland (Onsite)
Clearance Required: TS/SCI with CI or Full Scope Polygraph (Candidates must be eligible to work in classified environments)

Position Overview:
LKA & Associates is seeking an HPC Engineer to support advanced computing environments within the Intelligence Community. This role focuses on designing and optimizing large-scale computing systems to support mission-critical analytics, modeling, and simulation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and optimize high-performance computing environments and clusters
• Develop and maintain parallel processing applications using MPI, OpenMP, or similar frameworks
• Support GPU acceleration (CUDA) and distributed computing systems
• Manage workload scheduling systems such as Slurm
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to improve computational performance
• Monitor and tune system performance for large-scale workloads

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI or Full Scope Polygraph
• Experience with HPC environments and parallel computing
• Strong Linux systems administration experience
• Experience with distributed systems and cluster management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GPU programming (CUDA)
• Background in scientific computing, AI/ML workloads, or simulation systems
• Experience in IC or DoD programs