Systems Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on IT, systems administration, or infrastructure experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience delivering and operating these systems.
• A record of personally delivering improvements and resolving difficult problems, with the ability to explain the work, testing, and results.
• Strong Windows and Microsoft 365 administration skills, including identity, permissions, endpoint management, and practical security controls.
• Networking fundamentals and the ability to troubleshoot methodically across devices, services, and connectivity.
• Comfort writing and maintaining scripts or small integrations to eliminate repetitive work.
• Good judgment when handling sensitive information, privileged access, incidents, and production changes; ability to know when to act or escalate and leave a clear record.
• Clear communication and responsive support skills, with the ability to prioritize urgent issues while completing longer-term projects.
• Ability to work at the El Segundo factory five days a week.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or scaling IT at a startup, hardware company, factory, or other fast-moving environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Intune, macOS or Linux administration, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, or engineering software environments.
• Experience implementing technical controls and gathering evidence for NIST 800-171, CMMC, or similar security programs.
• Experience supporting site moves, factory expansion, or recovery from a significant outage.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first point of contact for internal IT issues; diagnose problems, communicate clearly, restore service, and follow up with affected people.
• Purchase, provision, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot laptops, engineering workstations, peripherals, printers, and meeting-room equipment.
• Maintain organized asset records, spare equipment, and software license records.
• Administer Microsoft 365, accounts, groups, email, collaboration tools, and application access.
• Make onboarding efficient and offboarding complete, with access approved and documented.
• Deploy and troubleshoot office and factory Wi-Fi, switches, firewalls, VPNs, cabling, DNS, and DHCP.
• Coordinate with engineering to establish clear boundaries between corporate IT and product or test systems.
• Implement and maintain MFA, least-privilege access, device management, encryption, patching, endpoint protection, and appropriate logging.
• Partner with compliance owners on required controls and evidence.
• Automate device setup, account lifecycle tasks, inventory, and recurring administration using scripts or APIs; test changes and document how they work.
• Maintain backups, test restores, monitor critical services, and document recovery steps.
• Handle incidents with clear priorities, safe changes, and verified fixes.
• Own migrations, new tools, vendor coordination, and factory IT improvements from planning through verification with users.
• Keep systems, ownership, access procedures, and troubleshooting guides current.
• Prioritize urgent issues while completing longer-term projects and communicate support progress clearly.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity.
• Top market salary and bonuses.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Daily lunch.
• Unlimited Celsius.
• Dream desk setup.