IT System Engineer

Otter AI
Mountain View, CA$155k – $185kPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<h3>The Opportunity</h3> <p>Join our mission to empower teams through technology that supports AI-powered productivity. As an<strong> IT System Engineer</strong>, you’ll play a hands-on role in maintaining and improving the systems, tools, and workflows that keep our engineers, AI researchers, and business teams running efficiently. You’ll be the go-to expert for troubleshooting technical issues, managing devices and networks, and helping teams leverage the latest tools that power our AI-enhanced platform.</p> <p>This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment where IT meets artificial intelligence. You’ll collaborate with talented engineers and operations leaders, gaining exposure to automation and AI-enabled tools that shape the future of work.</p> <h3>Your Impact</h3> <ul> <li>Provide frontline IT support for employees across Windows and macOS environments.</li> <li>Troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues to ensure minimal downtime.</li> <li>Manage onboarding and offboarding processes, including device setup, access provisioning, and account management.</li> <li>Maintain and optimize company systems such as Google Workspace, Slack, and security tools.</li> <li>Support enterprise conference AV systems to ensure reliable and high-quality meeting experiences.</li> <li>Collaborate with teams managing Okta identity management systems and implement automation for provisioning, access control, and monitoring.</li> <li>Contribute to IT process documentation and help scale support operations as the company grows.</li> </ul> <h3>We’re Looking For Someone Who</h3> <ul> <li>2+ years in <strong>IT Systems / Enterprise IT / Systems Engineering / DevOps-internal tooling</strong>, supporting internal customers (employees)</li> <li>Strong scripting skills (Python preferred; Go is a plus) and comfort integrating APIs/services</li> <li>Solid troubleshooting fundamentals across <strong>macOS/Windows endpoints</strong>, networking basics, and security hygiene</li> <li>Comfortable working in Linux environments and learning operational best practices (monitoring, patching, reliability)</li> <li>Able to work through ambiguous problems and coordinate with IT, Security, and Engineering stakeholders</li> <li>Write clear documentation and communicate tradeoffs in a practical, evidence-based way</li> <li>Identity and access workflows (Okta/Entra, Google Workspace/M365), provisioning automation</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Haves</strong></p> <ul> <li>IAM patterns: access lifecycle automation, least privilege, access reviews</li> <li>Identity protocols: SAML, OAuth/OIDC, SCIM (working knowledge is great)</li> <li>Google Workspace and/or M365 administration</li> <li>Modern device management and endpoint security workflows (Kandji, Intune, Jamf)</li> <li>Partnering with Security on compliance initiatives or vulnerability management</li> </ul> <div> <h3><strong>About Otter.ai </strong></h3> We are in the business of shaping the future of work. Our mission is to make conversations more valuable. With over 1B meetings transcribed, <a href="http://otter.ai/">Otter.ai</a> is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla. <p><em>Otter.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We proudly celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive and accessible workplace. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants throughout the hiring process. </em></p> <h3><strong>Accessibility Accommodations</strong></h3> Otter.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our hiring p ... (truncated, view full listing at source)