1099 consultant · ~120–600 hrs per funded award · $45–$105/hr · Remote (U.S.)

Distributed Storage and I/O Engineer

Make our data move fast and land safely. You'll tune parallel filesystems, object stores and caches until the I/O path stops being the reason a job runs slow.

About Precision Federal

Precision Federal is a small business building AI, data and software systems for government agencies. The company’s founder loves God, and the company is built on Christian faith: every number we publish is real, every claim we make is verifiable, and the work is done with excellence as service to God. Faith is welcome here and openly shared.

How this role works

You join the bench. You apply with your weekly hours and start time. We set your hourly rate from your résumé, and we may name you on proposals that match this role. If we don't win, you owe nothing.
A contract is awarded. The award funds the team named in the proposal. Your engagement begins at the hourly rate we agreed on.
You work remote, paid from the contract. ~120–600 hrs per funded award — and if no award ever funds, you owe nothing and lose nothing.

What you'll do

Design and tune storage layouts for parallel filesystems and object stores so they match how our workloads actually read and write
Profile the I/O path end to end and find where latency and throughput are being lost, from client to network to disk
Build caching tiers and data staging that keep compute busy instead of waiting on storage
Check claims about throughput, durability and scale against real benchmarks before they reach the Government

Required qualifications

Hands-on engineering experience with at least one parallel filesystem such as Lustre, IBM Storage Scale (GPFS), BeeGFS or CephFS
Working experience with object storage, such as Amazon S3, MinIO or Ceph RGW, including performance and consistency tradeoffs
Demonstrated work diagnosing and reducing I/O latency using tools such as fio, IOR, mdtest, Darshan or system-level tracing
U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (U.S. person)
Willing to be named on a federal proposal with a one-page resume, and to sign a short letter of commitment

Preferred qualifications

Experience running storage for HPC, AI training or large analytics clusters
Caching and tiering layers such as Alluxio, Redis, burst buffers or NVMe-backed scratch
High-speed networking for storage, including InfiniBand, RDMA or NVMe over Fabrics
Experience with storage in federal, DoE lab or other government computing environments

Compensation & structure

1099 consulting engagement. $45–$105 per hour; we set your rate from your résumé and experience. Hours are funded by federal contract awards — this seat is scoped at roughly 120–600 hours per funded award, fully remote. Work and pay begin only if the contract is awarded — no award, no hours, no obligation.

Join the bench — Distributed Storage and I/O Engineer

Every application is read. It takes about 5 minutes.

This is a bench, not a job offer. Work starts when we win a contract that needs you.
We may name you on proposals. If that contract is awarded, you do the role at the rate and hours we agree on.
Paid hourly as a 1099 contractor; full-time roles may be W-2. If your background fits, we will email you.

First name *

Last name *

Email *

Phone *

Work authorization *

LinkedIn or portfolio link

What state do you live in? *

Resume (PDF or Word) *

Questions

Answer from your own experience. A few sentences each is plenty; be specific and tell us what you did yourself.

Precision Federal was founded on Christian values. Our faith in God shapes how we work: many of us openly share our personal faith, share our lives together, and pray for one another. We’re building a close-knit community where we truly care about each other. Taking part is always voluntary, and people of every faith and background are welcome. As we get to know you, you’re always welcome to share your own faith with us.

1. Cover letter. In your own words, tell us about yourself: what guides you (for many of us here, that’s our faith in God), your background, and why this role interests you. *

2. Describe the storage or I/O project most like this role: the filesystem or object store, the scale (clients, capacity, throughput), the bottleneck you found, what you changed, your role, and the measured result. *

Availability

Pay for this role: $45–$105 an hour, set by your experience.

Hours per week you could give on an awarded contract (all part-time, up to 30) *

If you are named and we win, will you be able to start within a few weeks? *

May we name you on proposals for this role, and if we win, will you do the work at the rate we agree on? *

I agree to the Applicant Terms. *

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