What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Administrator position at Oxmiq Labs?
About OXMIQ
OXMIQ designs GPU and AI silicon for large-scale model inference and training and is developing an infrastructure and AI service orchestration platform that runs on heterogeneous accelerator hardware.
The Role
The System Administrator owns the day-to-day health of OXMIQ's office, lab, and supporting IT environments — the infrastructure through which our engineers, executives, and customer-facing teams get their work done. The role is responsible for the end-to-end operational path: how a system is imaged, deployed, networked, monitored, supported, and retired across our Campbell headquarters and Fremont colocation footprint.
The System Administrator must also have a working understanding of the AI workloads that run on top of this infrastructure — model serving, AI agents, GPU runtimes — and will collaborate with the platform and engineering teams to deploy, operate, and troubleshoot these services. Background and hands-on experience with these layers is expected; ownership of their delivery is not.
The role is hands-on. The System Administrator builds and maintains imaging pipelines, configures network and conference room infrastructure, onboards new employees, deploys AI services on internal hardware, and serves as the first line of IT support for the engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the bare-metal imaging and provisioning pipeline for the office and lab fleet, including FOG Server (Windows/Linux workstations) and MAAS (Ubuntu/RHEL servers), golden image management, PXE boot infrastructure, and post-deployment automation.
- Configure, monitor, and maintain office and colocation network infrastructure, including FortiGate firewalls, switches, VLANs, Wi-Fi, DNS, DHCP, VPN, and site-to-site tunnels (Tailscale, devtunnel, IPsec).
- Patch, monitor, and maintain Windows, Ubuntu, and RHEL systems across the office and lab; manage backups, TrueNAS storage, hardware inventory, lifecycle replacement, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Provision laptops, accounts, and access for new hires end-to-end; maintain onboarding runbooks and standard hardware/software configurations; conduct day-one IT orientation and ongoing user support.
- Configure and maintain conference room systems (displays, cameras, microphones, room scheduling) and support hybrid meetings across Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet for executive and customer-facing use.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain AI agents and AI gateway services (e.g., OpenClaw) across internal infrastructure; integrate with internal identity, networking, and observability stacks.
- Stand up and operate self-hosted LLM endpoints (vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, or comparable) on the GPU fleet; pull, quantize, and validate models from Hugging Face and other sources; manage model storage and versioning.
- Support engineers in benchmarking and evaluating models across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Tenstorrent hardware; monitor GPU utilization, inference latency, and endpoint health; troubleshoot device pairing, drivers, and runtime issues.
- Serve as the first line of IT support for the engineering team on hardware, software, and access issues; document procedures, write runbooks, and contribute to the internal knowledge base.
Required Qualifications
- 3 years of system administration experience in a mixed Windows/Linux environment, with a track record of owning end-to-end IT operations.
- **Hands-on experience with bare-metal imaging and provisioning systems** — FOG Server, MAAS, or comparable (Clonezilla, SCCM/MECM, Foreman) — at the level of operating them in production, customizing images, and integrating with PXE/DHCP infrastructure.
- **Strong networking fundamentals**: VLANs, routing, firewalls, DNS, DHCP, VPN, and the operational realities of running a multi-site network across office and colocation facilities.
- Proficiency with at least one configuration management tool (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) and comfort scripting in PowerShell and Bash.
- Hands-on experience supporting conference room AV and end-user IT in a professional environment, including Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet integrations.
- Working knowledge of cloud administration in at least one of Azure, GCP, or AWS, including identity federation and SSO.
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in some form — deploying inference servers, supporting GPU workstations, or operating model-serving infrastructure.
- Strong written and verbal communication, with a documentation-first mindset.
- Working exposure to Claude Code or equivalent AI-assisted development workflows, with hands-on use in day-to-day engineering practice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with FortiGate or comparable enterprise firewalls in a multi-site deployment.
- Familiarity with TrueNAS, ZFS, or other enterprise storage platforms.
- Hands-on experience with GPU servers, HPC clusters, or lab/colocation environments.
- Experience deploying LLM inference servers (vLLM, SGLang, TGI, Ollama, llama.cpp) or AI gateway services.
- Familiarity with CUDA, ROCm, or other GPU runtimes, and with multi-vendor accelerator hardware (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Tenstorrent).
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Identity/SSO administration (Entra ID, Okta, Google Workspace).
- Relevant industry certifications (CompTIA, RHCE, Microsoft, Cisco, Fortinet).
Education
- BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
Working Environment
The System Administrator reports into the Infrastructure & Capsule organization and works directly with the DevOps, IT, and platform engineering teams, as well as with engineering leads across the company. The role is on-site at OXMIQ's Campbell headquarters with regular trips to the Fremont colocation facility. AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code or equivalent) are a standard part of engineering practice at OXMIQ and are expected to be used in daily work.
Compensation & Benefits
OXMIQ offers a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity participation, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, and the opportunity to contribute to foundational silicon and software technology.
OXMIQ is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.