Palo Alto On-site Employment

Odyssey is hiring a Member of Operations Staff, IT Manager

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day IT support: troubleshooting, escalations, and walk-up help for the Palo Alto office; remote support for London and Zurich
  • Manage the full device lifecycle — procurement, imaging/MDM enrollment, deployment, repair, and retirement — for laptops, monitors, and peripherals
  • Run technical onboarding and offboarding: accounts, hardware, and access provisioning/deprovisioning
  • Maintain office AV, conference rooms, and printers
  • Own office networking: Wi-Fi, switches, firewalls, VPN, and ISP/vendor relationships
  • Administer core SaaS: identity/SSO (e.g., Google Workspace), email, Slack, MDM, and endpoint security
  • Manage software licensing, renewals, and IT vendor contracts
  • Define and enforce IT security policy: device compliance, patching, MFA, access reviews
  • Lead security tooling rollout (endpoint protection, password management) and phishing awareness
  • Support compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2) with evidence collection and control ownership
  • Maintain asset inventory and IT documentation
  • Own the IT budget and make build/buy/outsource recommendations
  • Plan for growth across three offices, including standardizing IT setup internationally

Requirements

  • 5+ years in IT support/administration, including 2+ years owning IT (or as a senior/sole IT resource) at a company of similar size
  • Strong with macOS and Windows fleets, MDM (Jamf, Kandji, Intune, or similar), and identity/SSO administration
  • Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPN, firewall management
  • Experience selecting and managing SaaS tools and vendors
  • Security-minded: you patch, you enforce MFA, you sweat access reviews
  • Clear communicator who's patient with non-technical colleagues
  • Comfortable being a team of one: prioritizing, documenting, and asking for help when needed
  • Must be able to work 5 days week at our Palo Alto office

Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting distributed/international offices
  • SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance experience
  • Scripting for automation (Bash, Python, or PowerShell)
About company
Odyssey

We're an AI lab pioneering general world models, and believe a new and powerful form of intelligence will emerge from learning all the beauty, physics, and intelligence of our world. It's our responsibility to leave the world a better place than we found it.

Odyssey is pioneering world models—AI to understand and simulate the world. This foundational technology promises to revolutionize robotics, science, healthcare, education, gaming, energy, and beyond.

We're an AI lab pioneering world models, and believe a new and powerful form of intelligence will emerge from learning all the beauty, physics, and intelligence of our world. It's our responsibility to leave the world a better place than we found it.

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Posted a month ago