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High Performance Computing (HPC) Specialists apply their expertise to research, design HPC solutions, and work with AI, Autonomous Systems, Biotech, and Data Science Specialists to understand processing, bandwidth, and capacity.
Learn more about this agency10/01/2024 to 09/30/2025
$68,405 - $181,216 per year
GS 8 - 15
Many vacancies in the following location:
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No
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy.
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
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24-12188691-7221/THD
757718800
As a High Performance Computing (HPC) Specialist for CIA, you will conduct research on a range of HPC from large-scale systems to small-scale specialized systems. You will work with various teams to design the right system for their needs, which can include processing massive datasets to produce key intelligence to processing data coming off a handful of sensors on a robotic device.
Our HPC Specialists support AI solutions that improve the performance of our collection systems and enable faster, deeper, and better explained insights from collection. The solutions will ultimately boost the performance of our mission experts by enabling human-machine teaming and algorithmically putting the right insights before the right experts.
You will be working with teams of world-class experts, and in many cases you will be steering the work of large collaborative teams. Using advanced hardware, software, and computational platforms with an emphasis on highly scalable and efficient solutions, you will bring exploitation capabilities to production and provide insights on the nation's most difficult national security challenges. When problem-solving, you will be collaborating with domain experts, data and collection experts, systems designers and integrators, and analysts. You will develop your expertise through continuing education sponsored by the Agency, along with integrated on the job training with deep domain experts.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
For more information, please visit: https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/high-performance-computing-specialist-in-engagement-research-and-innovation/.
For further information, please visit: https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/high-performance-computing-specialist-in-engagement-research-and-innovation/.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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