IT Lead

About this role

ABOUT ENDURANCE

Endurance is building the world's first modular subsea geothermal power plants, converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power. Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis, First Round Capital, and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, and Robinhood. We have completed multiple deep-ocean deployments and are launching a long-term demonstration project this fall. By leveraging modular design, manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on both environmental impact and cost.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Endurance runs on its systems: the laptops, networks, identity, and security stack behind a team designing, building, and deploying power plants on the seafloor. This role owns all of it. You will be our first full-time IT hire, and you will own IT end to end.

Today we run on a managed service provider. Your first job is to bring that work in-house: take over day-to-day support, device management, identity, and network operations across two Seattle facilities, and reshape the MSP relationship into a lean retainer for after-hours coverage and project surge. From there you will build the security posture and systems we need as we scale, including the handling of export-controlled technical data.

This is a hands-on generalist seat at a roughly 50-person company that is growing fast, operates hardware labs and manufacturing space, and runs offshore missions. You will keep the basics excellent, keep people unblocked, and make pragmatic build-versus-buy calls without a playbook.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own end-user support, laptop and device lifecycle, and IT onboarding and offboarding for a fast-growing team

• Administer identity and access: SSO, MFA, account provisioning, and permissions across our SaaS stack

• Run network infrastructure across two facilities: firewalls, switching, Wi-Fi, VPN, and ISP relationships, including new building deployments

• Manage our security stack, including endpoint detection, anti-phishing, and monitoring, and lead phishing response and security awareness

• Manage the managed service provider relationship: scope, budget, escalation paths, and the transition of routine work in-house

• Implement device management and access controls that support ITAR/EAR compliance and a path toward NIST 800-171 readiness, working with our export controls counsel

• Support mission and field IT: satellite connectivity, shoreside and vessel communications, and equipment readiness for offshore deployments

• Own IT procurement and asset tracking, and partner with finance on budget, renewals, and vendor consolidation

• Help evaluate and stand up core business systems, including an ERP implementation planned for 2027

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of hands-on IT experience, including at least 2 years as the primary IT owner

• Strong generalist skills across identity (Google Workspace), networking (Ubiquity), device management (Intune, Jamf, or similar), endpoint security, and chat (Slack)

• A service mindset: you keep people unblocked and you sweat response time

• Comfort operating with ambiguity, writing the documentation yourself, and making pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions

• U.S. person status as defined under U.S. export control regulations (ITAR/EAR), due to access to controlled technical data

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Experience in an ITAR/EAR or CMMC / NIST 800-171 environment

• Experience supporting labs, manufacturing floors, or field and maritime operations

• Security or network certifications such as Security+, CISSP, or CCNA

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores

• Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions

• Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy

• Impactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges

• Competitive Compensation: Comprehensive salary and equity packages

• Benefits: Vision, Dental, Health insurance coverage

• Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification

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