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Date Posted:
2026-10-30Country:
United States of AmericaLocation:
US-AZ-TUCSON-M05 ~ 1151 E Hermans Rd ~ BLDG M05 (External Site)Position Role Type:
OnsiteU.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearanceSecurity Clearance Type:
Secret - CurrentSecurity Clearance Status:
Active and existing security clearance required on day 1System Administrator, High-Performance Computing (HPC) – P2
Senior Analyst Level
Raytheon Digital Technology (DT) – Classified Infrastructure Services
Tucson AZ – Onsite Role
At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.
Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedom and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.
Job Summary:
This Senior Analyst (P2) High-Performance Computing (HPC) candidate will provide Raytheon Digital Technology with High-Performance Computing Administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. This candidate will understand Windows Server internals, and knowledge of Linux fundamentals to include DNS, DHCP, AD, and server replication methods.
This position is an onsite role in our Tucson, Arizona location. Relocation support will be provided to the selected applicant if they meet company policy eligibility requirements.
What You Will Do:
- Work as a team member in a fast-paced technological environment.
- Help develop and implement new technologies based upon industry best practices.
- Use troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical problems at a moderate scope and complexity to include the integration of High-Performance Computing hardware, software, and operating systems (OS).
- Understanding utilizing software tools, automated scripts, batch schedulers, hardware, and system-level troubleshooting, to lead and support the engineering community.
- Perform OS tuning to maximize system performance on high performance computing systems. Work across DT functions to standardize processes and procedures.
- Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security compliance requirements.
- Provide documentation and training on advanced DT HPC processes and procedures. Be a mentor to junior team members.
- Must be able to obtain required Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 Certification requirements (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent certification and an Operating System Certification) within 6 months of hire date.
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Experience in Windows and/or Linux Server Environments including directory services management, and system hardening.
- Experience maintaining a medium sized Microsoft Windows Server environment.
Qualifications We Prefer:
- Experience with High-Performance Computing scheduling and monitoring tools highly desired.
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- High-Performance Computing (HPC) experience in a Linux environment.
- Experience in project leadership, management, or project management in a DT domain and basic to advance scripting experience.
- An active DoD Top-Secret Clearance.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Windows and Unix security hardening, systems integrations, advanced troubleshooting, and authentication service integration (LDAP).
- Unix (Including Linux and Solaris), experience in a medium to high complex environment(s).
- Working knowledge of High-Performance Computing scheduling and monitoring tools such as SLURM, Grid Engine and Ganglia.
What We Offer
- Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.
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- Relocation Eligibility – This role is relocation eligible for the selected applicant if they meet company policy criteria.
Additional Information:
- Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.
- Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
- For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.
Clearance Information: This position requires current and active US DOD Secret security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm
As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
The salary range for this role is 68,900 USD - 131,100 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in high performance computing jobs.
- Proficiency in parallel programming models including MPI, OpenMP, or CUDA
- Experience administering or using job schedulers such as Slurm or PBS Pro
- Strong background in C, C++, or Fortran for performance-critical codebases
- Familiarity with high-speed interconnects including InfiniBand or Ethernet fabrics
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computational science, or engineering
- Experience profiling and optimizing code using tools such as VTune or Nsight
Tips for Your High Performance Computing Job Search
Benchmark your resume with job code metrics
List specific benchmark results on your resume, such as LINPACK scores, scaling efficiency percentages, or job throughput improvements you achieved. Hiring managers in HPC differentiate candidates by measurable system performance gains, not just tool familiarity.
Target openings by scheduler and fabric stack
Filter job listings by the workload managers and interconnects named in the posting, such as Slurm, PBS Pro, InfiniBand, or Slingshot. Matching your hands-on experience to the exact stack a team runs accelerates recruiter callbacks significantly.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists high performance computing openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor applications around security clearance status
If you hold an active clearance, state the level and adjudication date near the top of your resume. National labs and defense contractors prioritize cleared candidates, and omitting this detail means your application competes at a disadvantage from the start.
Prepare a profiling and optimization code sample
Bring a short code walkthrough to technical interviews showing how you identified a bottleneck using a tool like VTune, NVIDIA Nsight, or TAU, and what you changed to resolve it. This demonstrates practical optimization instinct beyond theoretical knowledge.
Negotiate compute resource access in your offer
When reviewing an offer, ask which cluster allocation or cloud HPC budget you will have access to in your first project. Research computing roles vary widely in resource access, and this detail affects how quickly you can do meaningful work after starting.
High Performance Computing Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most high performance computings?
The companies hiring the most high performance computings right now include University of Alabama, Dell Technologies, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the largest share of openings in California, Maryland, and Alabama, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in organizations running large-scale simulation, AI training infrastructure, and classified research workloads.
How many high performance computing jobs are remote?
About 50% of high performance computing openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with fully on-site roles most common at national laboratories, government-funded supercomputing centers, and defense facilities that require physical access to classified systems. Software-focused sub-areas such as HPC application support and parallel algorithm development tend to offer the most remote flexibility.
How do you become a high performance computing professional?
Start by building a foundation in a systems-adjacent degree such as computer science, computational science, or electrical engineering, then practice parallel programming with MPI and OpenMP on open-source projects or university clusters. Get hands-on with a job scheduler like Slurm, learn to profile code using tools such as VTune or Nsight, and contribute to or document a project that demonstrates measurable performance improvement on a multi-node system.
Can you get a high performance computing job with little experience?
Entry points into HPC typically include research computing support roles, HPC systems administrator positions, and application support analyst jobs at universities or national labs, where deep parallel programming expertise is less critical than systems curiosity and scripting ability. Building a portfolio around a self-hosted cluster, contributing to open-source HPC software, or completing a graduate research assistantship that involved cluster computing are concrete ways to demonstrate readiness without years of industry experience.
What does the high performance computing interview process look like?
Most HPC interviews include a recruiter screen followed by a technical phone or video interview covering parallel programming concepts, memory hierarchy, and past optimization work. A second round typically involves a live coding or whiteboard session on MPI or CUDA patterns, a system design discussion around cluster architecture, and a conversation with domain scientists or end users whose applications you would support. Some employers also assign a take-home profiling exercise on a provided code sample.
Where can I find and apply to high performance computing jobs?
You can find and apply to high performance computing jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your specialization, whether that is parallel programming, systems administration, storage architecture, or application support, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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