IT Systems Engineer
Humble Robotics•San Francisco, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Humble Robotics is hiring its first dedicated IT employee to keep its people, lab, and systems running. The role owns corporate IT end to end, including identity and access, laptops and workstations across macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu, the office and lab network, and the team’s SaaS tools. The work combines hands-on support in the robotics lab with building automation to support company growth. The position is intended to be based primarily in Humble Robotics’ San Francisco office five days per week, in a collaborative in-office environment.
Requirements
- At least 4 years in an IT support, systems administration, or IT engineering role; experience in a hardware, robotics, lab, or manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience across Windows, Mac, and Linux-based operating systems.
- Experience administering an identity provider, including SSO, MFA, and user lifecycle automation.
- Experience with at least one MDM or endpoint-management platform and a considered approach to managing Linux fleets.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, switching, Wi-Fi, and VPN; able to trace a dropped port on a lab floor.
- Scripting ability in Bash and/or Python, and comfort using Ansible or similar configuration tooling.
- Experience running a ticket queue and writing usable documentation.
- Clear written and spoken communication, a customer-service mindset, and ability to prioritize competing urgent requests.
- Able to lift up to 50 lb and work in a lab and shop-floor environment.
- Eligibility to work in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, or other embedded Linux devices on a corporate or lab network.
- Cloud fundamentals and infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Experience with lab or data-center infrastructure, including servers, virtualization, and SAN/NAS storage.
- Conference-room AV experience.
Responsibilities
- Own the employee IT lifecycle, including onboarding and offboarding, account provisioning, device imaging and shipping, access grants and revocations, and license administration.
- Administer identity and access systems, including SSO, MFA, SCIM provisioning, and group-based access to Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Jira/Confluence, and engineering systems.
- Serve as first responder for office and lab networking, including switches, VLANs, Wi-Fi, VPN, and isolated test networks used by trucks, sensors, and test rigs.
- Support the robotics lab and shop floor, including engineering workstations, lab servers and NAS, vehicle data-offload pipelines, and hardware used for testing.
- Set up and support conference-room AV and collaboration tools, such as Zoom or Google Meet rooms and digital signage.
- Automate repetitive work using Bash or Python, Ansible, and platform APIs; measure ticket trends and address root causes.
- Maintain asset inventory and hardware lifecycle, manage IT procurement and vendor relationships, and keep spending visible.
- Partner with security and engineering on endpoint security, certificate management, vulnerability remediation, and required controls.
- Participate in a light on-call rotation for after-hours incidents once the team grows.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
- Take what you need vacation policy.
- Fully stocked kitchen with drinks, snacks, and weekly catered meals.
- Collaborative in-office environment located in San Francisco.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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