Compute Support & Systems Administrator
Part-Time Contractor — Berlin
Foresight Institute is hiring a hands-on Systems Administrator to support the technical infrastructure of our Berlin AI Node — a physical hub where researchers collaborate on AI-driven scientific progress.
Are you a practical, implementation-focused person with an entrepreneurial spirit? At the Node you will help keep our local compute infrastructure running smoothly, support containerized workloads, and troubleshoot issues when they arise. Some work is remote, but you must be available for on-site hardware setup and occasional urgent issues locally at CIC in Berlin.
Role details
- Location: Berlin (CIC, Lohmühlenstraße 65, 12435 Berlin, Germany)
- Type: Part-time contractor, ad-hoc (2–10 hours/week)
- Compensation: per hour (based on experience)
- Start: ASAP (rolling review)
What you’ll do
- Label, install, and maintain physical hardware and local servers
- Troubleshoot and support on-site GPU compute systems (UNIX-based)
- Manage NVIDIA drivers, CUDA environments, and multi-user GPU access
- Support Docker/containerized research workloads
- Onboard research projects and interface with users on compute needs
- Help improve pre-existing documentation
- Contribute to software development
Required
- Formal and informal hands-on experience with physical servers and hardware
- Based in Berlin and able to come on-site when needed
- Experience with NVIDIA GPUs (drivers, CUDA, troubleshooting)
- Able to diagnose hardware, infrastructure, and networking issues
- Experience with Docker and Unix-based systems
- Reliable and responsive (typically within 16 hours)
Nice to Have
- Experience with multi-user GPU scheduling (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes, or similar)
- Familiarity with ML research workflows (PyTorch, JAX, etc.)
- Experience in research or academic compute environments
- Basic security hardening knowledge
- Experience with heterogeneous or mixed-architecture clusters
If you enjoy enabling cutting-edge research by making infrastructure work smoothly, we’d love to hear from you. Apply here.