HPC and Parallel Computing Engineer (Remote, Contract Bench)

Target rate: $60–95/hour. Apply and see full details: https://precisionfederal.com/careers/hpc-parallel-computing-engineer We need engineers who make large scientific and AI workloads run fast on clusters and in the cloud. What you'll do Build and tune jobs on Slurm or PBS clusters and on cloud HPC such as AWS ParallelCluster or Azure CycleCloud Parallelize and profile code with MPI, OpenMP and CUDA to find and fix the bottleneck Set up GPU environments, containers (Apptainer or Singularity) and reproducible software stacks Size compute and storage, and report runtime and cost in plain terms Required 3+ years running or developing for HPC clusters MPI, OpenMP or CUDA in production code Linux plus Python, C/C++ or Fortran Preferred National lab, DoD HPCMP, NOAA, NASA or university research computing Cloud HPC A scientific domain such as climate, CFD, genomics or AI model training How our bench works. This is a bench role: there are no guaranteed hours. When a federal bid fits your background, we name you on it at your agreed rate, and you sign a short commitment before we submit. If we win, you do the work at that rate and those hours. Remote, 1099 hourly; full-time seats may be W-2. U.S. work authorization required. Precision Federal’s founder loves God, and we are building a company rooted in Christian faith. We do our work with honesty, care and excellence as service to God, and faith is welcome and openly shared here. If that sounds like home to you, we would love to hear from you.