Draper

Draper

AI Systems Administrator

Cambridge, MA · Full-time

No sponsorshipDetected 30 days ago
PythonBashGitAWSAzureKubernetesAnsibleLinuxPrometheusGrafanaMachine LearningData EngineeringNLPLLMsCybersecurityIncident ResponseAccountingPhotographyResearch

About the role

  • Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
  • The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions.
  • From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide.

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and troubleshoot RHEL/Oracle systems supporting GPU workloads (OS lifecycle, patching, performance, reliability).
  • This role helps Draper implement automation, streamline processes, and support mission-critical AI/ML workloads.
  • Maintain the integrity and security of servers and systems.
  • Interacts with vendors and VARs directly on proactive projects as well as reacting to support issues.
  • Duties may include installation, configure, and maintain new hardware/software, troubleshooting, permissions and training other administrators.
  • This job supports AI engineers using their knowledge to guide AI engineers with solutions and recommendations.

Requirements

  • Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

Nice to have

  • systemd, networking, troubleshooting, performance analysis, patching, package management.

Skills

  • Experience supporting enterprise platforms (incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, runbooks/documentation).
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Bash and/or Python, plus Ansible (preferred) or equivalent configuration management; comfortable with CI/Git workflows.
  • Additional Job Description:
  • Active Secret Clearance required.
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  • Massachusetts
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Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is
  • Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and does not include bonuses or benefits.

Company info

  • The role is part of a team of Linux system administrators responsible for managing the functionality and efficiency of a group of computers, approximately 750, running primarily Oracle Linux.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance

This listing is sourced directly from Draper's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.