Our client is a well-funded European robotics start-up building humanoid robots for physical work. The founders have scaled digital products and robotics businesses before, and senior people from leading AI labs and industrial tech have joined them. They’re still in semi-stealth and are now building out the core team. This hire owns the infrastructure the whole R&D effort runs on.
The role
You’ll be the person who keeps the research compute running. That covers GPU clusters (on-prem and cloud), custom lab workstations, and NVIDIA Jetson boards running on mobile humanoid robots. You’ll work directly with the AI software engineers and senior researchers, and you’ll own the environment end to end rather than just keeping tickets moving.
It’s a hands‑on role in every sense. You’ll be in the lab cabling, housing and commissioning machines, and fixing things fast when a robot or workstation goes down. You’ll also have a real say in how things are built, from network layouts and hardware choices to operating systems and the services on top. The client wants someone who cares as much about reliability and precision as about solving hard problems, and who is keen to see systems working in the real world rather than staying at demo stage.
What you’ll do
- Plan, build and maintain clusters, workstations and embedded systems for AI research, covering long training runs and real‑time inference
- Configure and support operating systems for custom hardware, including drivers, low‑level settings and server environments for robotics
- Support the R&D team in the lab with provisioning, wiring, commissioning and troubleshooting of workstations and robots
- Research and lead decisions on network design, hardware selection, operating systems and service layers
- Document architectural decisions and learnings
- Coordinate requirements with the client’s external IT provider
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years’ professional experience in Linux system administration
- Experience planning site‑scale IT infrastructure in an R&D environment
- Deep knowledge of Linux, complex networking and custom hardware environments
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Experience with ML workloads or mobile robots is a plus, as is an industry‑aligned degree or a formal apprenticeship
What you’ll receive:
Employment type: Full time, permanent
Keywords:
Linux System Administrator, Linux, R&D, GPU clusters, NVIDIA Jetson, embedded systems, robotics, humanoid robots, physical AI, ML infrastructure, networking, on‑premises, cloud, hardware commissioning, site‑scale infrastructure
Linux System Administrator in München Arbeitgeber: Cubiq Recruitment
Als Arbeitgeber bieten wir Ihnen die Möglichkeit, an der Spitze innovativer Hardware-Entwicklung zu stehen und aktiv an der Realisierung unserer humanoiden Plattform mitzuwirken. Unsere Unternehmenskultur fördert Kreativität und Zusammenarbeit, während wir gleichzeitig auf individuelle Wachstumschancen setzen, um Ihre Karriere voranzutreiben. In einem dynamischen Umfeld, das sich auf Sicherheit und Qualität konzentriert, haben Sie die Chance, mit einem engagierten Team zusammenzuarbeiten und bedeutende Beiträge zur Zukunft der Robotik zu leisten.
