IT Systems Engineer

The role

You will build the IT foundation at Cartesia, designing and shipping systems for device management, identity and access, internal tooling, and IT policy. You will also handle day-to-day employee IT support and use AI agents to automate that work.

What you will do

• Be the go-to person for employee IT issues and fix root causes.
• Build internal tools and self-service workflows that turn recurring requests into one-time fixes.
• Use AI agents to automate IT work, with clear permission boundaries and human approval where it matters.
• Partner with internal teams on the systems they rely on, managing access and building integrations.
• Write and maintain IT policies and build the technical controls that enforce them.
• Keep an inventory of the company's apps, admins and vendors, and manage the SaaS stack as it grows.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in IT or systems engineering, including time as one of the first IT hires at a growing company.
• Hands-on experience running device management (Rippling), identity and access (Google Workspace, Okta or similar), and compliance (Vanta), including endpoint security.
• Experience owning the full breadth of IT at a small company, from hardware and vendor budgets to office networking and supporting technical teams.
• Strong Python (or similar) skills for automating IT work through SaaS APIs.
• Experience managing configuration as code, such as Terraform.
• Comfort building with AI coding agents and good judgment about guardrails.
• A user-centric approach to support and the ability to explain technical issues in plain language.
• Strong self-direction: set your own priorities, ship early and document as you go.

Nice to have

• Experience building IT at an early-stage AI company.
• Experience using AI agents to automate IT work, with permission boundaries and verification built in.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and attractive equity package.
• Fully covered medical, dental and vision insurance for you and your family (US employees only).
• Parental leave: 9 weeks paternity and 12 weeks maternity (US employees only).
• 401(k) (US employees only).
• Monthly commuter stipend (US employees only).
• Flexible PTO (US employees only).
• Lunch, dinner and snacks provided daily (US employees only).
• Your own personal Yoshi.

Before you apply

• Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information after hire to confirm employment eligibility.
• Visa sponsorship support is offered case by case, depending on the role and location, and is not guaranteed.

About the company

Cartesia is an AI company whose mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. It was founded by PhDs from the Stanford AI Lab, who invented State Space Models.