If you love the idea of building an extensible compute and IT infrastructure from the ground up and are excited about working at a fast-growing hard technology startup with a great team, huge growth opportunities and an appreciation for work-life balance, read on! 

Mythic is a startup developing breakthrough technology for deploying artificial intelligence in any device from smart watches to servers. Our hardware and software will be the driver of the major technological trends over the next 20 years, including autonomous systems, robotics, AR/VR, drone delivery, and many more. We have over $55M in funding to date, with a great story and company culture. To help keep the team running smoothly as we scale quickly, Mythic is seeking two system administrators: one for Austin, TX and one for Redwood City, CA.

This role will give you an opportunity to work with incredibly talented people across a wide variety of deeply technical disciplines in engineering, product, and operations (think Tesla, SpaceX, Apple).

This role will report to our Hardware Methodology Lead. We are looking for someone that can reliably maintain and extend our compute and IT infrastructure as the company grows. You are perfect for this job if you know the ins and outs of Linux, and never afraid of installing any software package (including compiling from source), and can debug any problem, even if it is intermittent.

Mythic is a results-oriented and data-driven workplace that values work-life balance and supporting job growth. We are constantly innovating new ways to create a great working environment where everyone is given the tools and support to succeed.  We offer great benefits, for more information on our benefits please visit www.mythic-ai.com/careers.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining Linux servers and their software packages
• Maintaining the network and VPN
• Maintaining video conferencing systems and VOIP
• Administering SaaS applications
• Setting up new Linux, Windows, and Mac workstations and laptop for new employees
• Supporting company employees
• Many additional responsibilities possible depending on interest and experience; we are building a compute farm and other infrastructure for a fast-growing tech company

Requirements

• Strong understanding and 3+ years of experience with Linux
• Scripting experience in bash, python, ruby, or similar
• Excellent debugging skills – can solve problems without supervision
• Excellent at learning new tools – can learn, install, bring-up, and support new software packages without supervision
• Experience compiling and installing from source
• Experience with backups systems
• Experience with working in live production environments
• Extremely meticulous in actions and in the documentation of work
• Interpersonal skills suitable for a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
• Flexible schedule – you will have work/life balance, but the systems need to run 24/7 too

Nice to have

• Networking and security experience – VPN, SSL, LDAP, SSO
• Experience with Jenkins, Perforce, Confluence, JIRA, AWS
• Experience with EDA tools
• Experience with NFS or other remote filesystems
• Experience with job distribution systems such as LSF
• Experience with CUDA
• Experience with SaaS tools such as Box, Office 365, Google Apps