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title: 'Infrastructure/Systems Engineer at Orcrist Technologies'
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# Infrastructure/Systems Engineer at Orcrist Technologies

- **Company:** Orcrist Technologies
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/orcristtechnologies/jobs/4901103101

## Job description

Infrastructure Engineer – Platform

Company

Orcrist is building a next generation data intelligence platform using cutting-edge technologies. We’re handling petabyte-scale data with sub-second queries. Our product is a Kubernetes-based platform delivered as B2B SaaS or as a self-hosted on-prem solution, including air-gapped deployments. We enable customers across defense, law enforcement, and enterprise to turn mission-critical data into actionable intelligence. Our Platform team owns the infrastructure that powers every deployment, from the metal up.

## Role

You'll own the layer everything else runs on: bare-metal servers, operating systems, data-center networking, and storage across on-prem and fully air-gapped sites — the physical and infrastructure foundation our platform and GPU fleets are built on. You design, build, and operate server fleets with a strong automation and DevOps mindset, then partner with our SRE, MLOps, and ML teams to ensure everything running above the metal — including GPU inference — performs reliably at scale. Some of this work is hands-on at customer sites, where you size, rack, and commission self-contained server environments with no internet uplink.

We weight depth in modern data-center infrastructure, networking, and automation more heavily than GPU-specific experience. A strong infrastructure and network engineer with a genuine automation mindset — even without prior GPU exposure — is a better fit for this role than a candidate with GPU expertise whose networking background is rooted in legacy, corporate-style L2 designs.

## What you'll do

- Design, size, provision, and operate bare-metal server fleets across on-prem and air-gapped environments (firmware/BIOS/UEFI, BMC via Redfish/IPMI, OS, RAID, kernel and storage tuning) using zero-touch provisioning (PXE/iPXE, MAAS/Metal3/Tinkerbell/Ironic) and automation (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent — the tooling matters less than the automation mindset).
- Build and run modern data-center networking: L2/L3 design, IP Fabric, BGP and switching, and RDMA fabrics (RoCE/InfiniBand) sized to scale without ripping out the core.
- Engineer resilient, highly available storage (Ceph/Rook, NVMe) with capacity planning and encryption at rest.
- Operate confidently in air-gapped and on-prem environments: offline mirrors and registries, signed artifacts, firmware/driver lifecycle without internet access, and system hardening.
- Support MLOps and inference-serving fundamentals — GPU model serving (Triton/KServe/vLLM), GPU scheduling and sharing, and throughput/latency optimization — in partnership with our SRE and ML teams.
- Plan and run on-site build-outs: rack integration, power budgets, thermal/cooling and UPS sizing, commissioning, capacity planning, runbooks, and operator handover, with SWaP awareness for field sites.

## About You

- 5+ years in bare-metal, data-center, or systems infrastructure engineering, with hands-on ownership of physical and compute infrastructure at scale.
- Strong bare-metal Linux (Ubuntu, RKE2, Talos, or similar): provisioning, firmware/BMC management, PXE/iPXE, kernel and storage tuning, systemd, RAID.
- Real experience with infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent), Git and CI/CD, and scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Solid, current data-center networking fundamentals: L2/L3, IP Fabric, BGP, and switching — this is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. RDMA (RoCE/InfiniBand) experience is a strong plus.
- Comfortable operating in air-gapped or on-prem environments and traveling to customer sites for builds and deployments.
- Practical hardware sizing literacy: power budgets, thermal/cooling, UPS sizing, and rack integration.
- Documentation-focused, methodical, and calm during hardware incidents. Eligible to work in Germany.

Nice‑to‑haves

- German language (B1+); exposure to regulated or security-critical environments (e.g. BSI C5, ISO 27001, or defense-sector delivery) is a plus.
- NVIDIA GPU stack knowledge (drivers, CUDA, GPU Operator, MIG, DCGM) and cross-node GPU interconnect experience (NVLink, InfiniBand, NCCL).
- Kubernetes bare-metal fundamentals — how cluster bring-up and GPU device plugins interact with the underlying hardware, not day-to-day cluster operation.
- Inference optimization (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, quantization) and familiarity with switch NOS (SONiC/Cumulus).
- Relevant certifications (NVIDIA, Red Hat, CKA/CKS) or field/forward-deployed engineering experience.

## What We Offer

- Modern architecture & stack.
- Remote/Hybrid setup in Berlin with occasional team events in Berlin.
- Home office budget and great equipment.
- 30 days vacation.
- Direct impact on critical missions across private and public-sector customers.

## About Orcrist Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Orcrist Technologies builds AI-powered software for real-time situational awareness and sensor fusion in defense and public sector environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage, no funding disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany (also mentions United States presence)
- **Founded**: Year not disclosed
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Defense technology / AI and data analytics for military and public sector
- Target customers: B2B and B2G – NATO, European defense partners, government agencies, and select private sector enterprises
- Mission statement: "To give decision-makers the clarity they need—when it matters most" by enabling information dominance in fast-moving, high-threat scenarios

## Products & Services
- **Orcrist Sensor Fusion Platform**: AI-powered software that fuses data from multiple sources (sensors, OSINT, GEOINT) into actionable intelligence, designed for interoperability and real-time use.
- **Data Analytics & AI Services**: End-to-end consulting and engineering services guiding clients through data science, analytics, and AI adoption across sensitive, distributed, and unstructured data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 7 employees (+225% year-over-year growth) as of mid-2025, with 17+ open positions listed suggesting rapid scaling
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; partners likely include NATO and European defense entities
- **Growth Signals**: 225% headcount growth in 12 months, multiple active engineering roles (ML, Infrastructure, Full-Stack), expansion of office footprint with US presence mentioned

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep specialization in highly sensitive, multi-format data fusion (sensors, signals, imagery) for defense use cases
- Focus on modularity and speed, designed specifically for NATO and European interoperability requirements
- "German precision" engineering combined with global expertise, giving credibility in regulated markets
- Small, highly skilled team (7 people) enabling agility and direct impact

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling up the engineering team (open roles for ML, Data, Full-Stack, Infrastructure Engineers) to accelerate platform development
- Expanding from defense into private sector applications of their analytics capabilities
- Building a strong European defense tech alternative to US-centric solutions

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Startup environment focused on mission-driven work with real-world impact in national security; "shaping the future of business through the transformative power of AI and data"
- **Remote/Hybrid**: All engineering and most roles offer remote or remote/Berlin hybrid options – flexible work arrangements
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge defense AI with a small, high-performing team; open positions across departments (Engineering, Product, Legal, People, Design) signal investment in team building across functions
- **Growth**: Extremely high headcount growth rate indicates fast expansion and career advancement opportunities

## Sources
1. [orcrist.org](https://orcrist.org/)
2. [orcrist.org/about](https://orcrist.org/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/orcrist-technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/orcrist-technologies/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/orcristtechnologies](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/orcristtechnologies)

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