<h3><strong>About the Company</strong></h3><p>We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.</p><p>The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis.</p><p>Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Boeing, Tesla, Apple, Virgin Orbit, Astra, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries.</p><h3><strong>About the Job</strong></h3><p>We are developing technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world’s oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. Building this technology requires collaboration across teams and tools. Our internal computing infrastructure and software applications are fundamental to the operation of our overall business and our technology systems in the field.</p><p>You will take shared responsibility for building and operating our internal computing infrastructure platforms and the many business-critical applications that run upon them. The ideal candidate will understand performance, availability, and security requirements for the company’s infrastructure, networks, and applications. You will architect and develop technology solutions to business problems and directly implement and operate them. You should have extensive experience with Windows and Linux systems administration, operating system configuration management, virtualized/cloud-hosted/containerized infrastructure, IP networking, and infrastructure security. You should be able to employ a first-principles, fundamental logic-based approach to problem solving while building highly secure, performant, and reliable systems.</p><p>Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company’s direction on a regular basis. You will own your designs cradle-to-grave, from first concept through fabrication and deployment at sea. If you are an excellent engineer, regardless of your background, we want you to apply.</p><h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul><li>Collaboratively architect, build, and operate internal and external-facing computing infrastructure in on-premise datacenter and cloud-hosted environments</li><li>Design and implement automated tools and processes for hosting commodity and internally-developed software applications reliably, performantly, and securely</li><li>Develop infrastructure-as-code software to support and enable the operation of platform and application workloads</li><li>Deploy, operate, monitor, upgrade, and migrate business applications to ensure reliable and scalable performance that meets the needs of our users</li><li>Implement agreed-upon solutions, including deploying new servers, network equipment, applications, end-user devices, and other equipment</li><li>Manage and administer third-party SaaS applications used by the company</li><li>Monitor systems, applications and networks to identify problems and threats</li><li>Respond to incidents when they occur to maintain business continuity and security</li><li>Document system architecture, procedures, and protocols</li></ul><h3><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></h3><ul><li>Ability to work in our Portland, OR headquarters</li><li>5+ years of directly relevant experience</li><li>Extensive experience with modern Windows, Linux and MacOS system administration using automated tools and processes</li><li>Infrastructure automation with configuration management and IaC tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc.</li><li>Experience building on-premise or cloud-hosted Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and virtualized/containerized application hosting platforms</li><li>Experience designing, building, and improving networks, including experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high-availability architecture</li><li>Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.</li><li>Ability to rapidly build understanding and expertise in new technologies, software packages, and programming languages</li><li>Ability to think independently about potential solutions – including the novel or uncommon – rather than implementing industry standards if they will not achieve the desired outcome</li></ul><h3><strong>Desired Qualifications</strong></h3><ul><li>10+ years of directly relevant working and/or research experience</li><li>Comfort working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities</li><li>Experience supporting software development teams in the practice of building/testing/deploying/operating custom software applications, especially IoT software and hardware</li><li>Experience deploying and maintaining engineering-focused software (e.g. Siemens NX, Ansys, other CAD/CAM/Simulation/FEA software)</li><li>Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster administration and operation</li><li>Experience with vulnerability management, red-teaming, and other security analysis functions</li><li>Experience at startup companies or with innovative interdisciplinary teams, including: Comfort working with ambiguity and uncertainty; Ability to proactively evolve work to meet the changing needs of company; Willingness to question and refine prior requirements; Strong interpersonal and organizational skills; Open-mindedness about possible solutions, conventional or unconventional; Ability to identify problems, willingness to call them out constructively, and dedication to resolving them</li><li>A history of successful mentorships, training others, teaching of seminars, or authoring technically focused web pages or white papers</li></ul><p>The above qualifications are desired, not required. We encourage you to apply if you are a strong candidate with only some of the desired qualifications listed.</p><h3><strong>Additional Requirements</strong></h3><ul><li>Legal authorization to work in the United States</li><li>Travel to test sites and manufacturing locations as needed</li><li>Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical need; we expect a lot of each other, but we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including unlimited PTO and flexible working hours</li></ul><h3><strong>Compensation and Benefits</strong></h3><p>If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:</p><ul><li>Cash compensation of $150,000 – $200,000.</li><li>Equity in the company. We’re all owners and if we’re successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.</li><li>A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:<ul><li>Flexible paid time off</li><li>Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold-level PPO plan for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)</li><li>Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)</li><li>Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full-time employees, their partners, and dependents)</li><li>Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long-term financial support if you become disabled)</li><li>Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA</li></ul></li><li>Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).</li></ul><p> </p><h3><strong>Location</strong></h3><p>Our offices, lab, and machine shop are located in Portland, Oregon. <em>This position requires consistent on-site work.</em></p><p> </p>

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