Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
Own the infrastructure supporting an early-stage hardware and robotics engineering organization. This hands-on role covers Linux hosts, lab equipment, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, storage, virtualization, backup and disaster recovery, as well as observability and hardware-in-the-loop testing. You will work closely with an international infrastructure counterpart to maintain shared standards.
Highlights
High-ownership infrastructure role at an early-stage robotics and hardware organization. The position offers broad responsibility across lab infrastructure, CI/CD, virtualization, monitoring, testing, backup and disaster recovery, with close collaboration on shared infrastructure standards.
Description
Senior IT & Infrastructure Engineer — Stealth Hardware/Robotics Startup (Bay Area, CA)
Our client is an early-stage hardware and robotics engineering company building advanced sensing and positioning technology.
Their engineering org needs someone to own the infrastructure that keeps it running.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership Infra/DevOps role, not a helpdesk job.
You'll be the person engineers come to when compute, CI/CD, monitoring, or lab systems need to work — and you'll partner closely with an international DevOps counterpart on shared infrastructure standards.
What you'll own:
Infrastructure & Ops — Linux hosts, on-site lab equipment, Jenkins servers, SaltStack config management, NFS, Docker/KVM virtualization, backup & DR
CI/CD & Build Systems — GitHub + Jenkins pipelines for firmware and host images, quality gates (SonarScanner, Pytest), hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) test integration
Monitoring & Alerting — Grafana observability across infra and test environments; alerting on power states, UPS, disk, and infra faults
AWS & Cloud — org-wide account management, security audits, cost reporting
Internal IT — tier-1 support, SaaS tooling (1Password, GitHub, GitLab, Cursor), account provisioning, vendor/compliance coordination
You're a strong fit if you have:
5+ years in IT ops, sysadmin, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering — spanning both IT and engineering systemsStrong Linux/Bash administration + config management (SaltStack, Ansible, or similar)Hands-on Docker + KVM virtualizationProduction experience running CI/CD in GitHub and JenkinsProduction Grafana monitoring/alerting experienceCloud administration at the org level (AWS preferred)Comfort supporting a technical engineering team directly (tier-1)Based in the Bay Area, able to work on-site 3+ days/week
Bonus points for:
Firmware/embedded team support, HITL test integration5G/LTE telecom familiarityLab equipment, test rigs, or robotics infra experienceEarly-stage/high-growth startup backgroundSonarScanner/Pytest or Elasticsearch exposure
