Who we are
Joi AI is a platform for AI-lationships — personalized, emotionally intelligent connections between people and AI characters. We build characters that have their own personality, mood, and voice: they can ignore you, argue with you, miss you. If you've seen the film Her — that's roughly where we're headed.
Our platform serves both emotional and intimate needs without judgment, built on the values of rejection-free connection, sex positivity, freedom to be yourself, and ethical integrity. Today we have tens of millions of conversations on the platform. Our goal: 10% of the global population in long-term AI-lationships with our characters.
Joi Lab (joilab.ai) is our open research arm — we build open-source generative models, agent architectures, and training infrastructure. All code, weights, and data are public. We're not chasing the next ChatGPT wrapper; we're working on true AI agency: persistent memory, self-modification, self-authored constraints.
The role
We're looking for a Senior IT Ops / Sysadmin who can own infrastructure end-to-end for a fully remote company. You'll run everything from VPN and MFA to Google Workspace, vendor contracts, and invoice payments — no ticket queue, no office to fall back on, no one else untangling the hard calls.
This is a hands-on role. No legacy systems to inherit, no red tape to move through — you decide what needs fixing and you fix it, days not weeks.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Run the infrastructure end-to-end: VPS, dedicated servers, virtual machines, VPN, MFA, firewall, remote access — plus the monitoring, logging, and backups that keep it honest.
- Administer Google Workspace completely — accounts, groups, aliases, security policy, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and any migrations that come with it.
- Own Slack, OpenAI, and every other SaaS platform we run — including version and system migrations when they happen.
- Be the actual IT support for a distributed team — L1/L2 on Mac and Windows, onboarding and offboarding, remote laptop setup, device lifecycle.
- Negotiate with vendors, manage procurement, and control payment on cloud resources, licenses, and invoices — the part most sysadmins never touch, but you will.
- Show up occasionally when we run an offline "station" and physically set up the room — laptops, mics, sound.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- You've spent 5+ years as a sysadmin or in IT ops, and you've actually run Google Workspace top to bottom — including a domain migration, not just user management.
- You know Slack, Confluence, Jira, and SSO/2FA (Okta, Google, Azure AD or similar) from hands-on use, not a course.
- You've got working knowledge of at least one public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and the on-prem basics — DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, firewall.
- You've built and tested backups, not just scheduled them, and you understand mail security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) well enough to fix it when it breaks.
- You've dealt with vendors and procurement directly — contracts, invoices, renewals — this isn't a nice-to-have here, it's half the job.
- Scripting (bash/Python/PowerShell) is a plus, not a requirement.
- Your English and Russian are both solid enough — B1+ — to run a call with a vendor without a script.
WHY JOI
• We're changing the industry and making relationships with AI feel real
• Opportunity to receive company equity
• Joi Lab gives you access to frontier model research, all open-source and free of corporate gatekeeping
• Small team, high trust, high ownership. You see the direct impact of your work
• Ideas turn into live experiments in days, not quarters
• Fully remote, full-time, work from anywhere
• Offline meetups with the team, fully covered by the company
• We cover 100% of training and conference costs
• Health support: join our group insurance plan, or get up to $1,000 a year toward medical costs or a private plan
• Workspace: we cover your office, home office or co-working setup
• 28 days of annual leave
• 7 wellness days a year for life admin or recovery, no sick notes needed
• Subsidised English classes through our corporate discount
• Peer recognition: send each other gratitude bonuses and swap them for swag, massage vouchers or team trips
NEXT STEPS
- Intro call — conversation with the Recruiter, includes a short live technical quiz
- Technical interview — deep-dive with our DevOps Lead on your infrastructure background, plus scenario and troubleshooting questions (up to 90 min)
- Final interview — with leadership, culture fit and team alignment
Senior System Administrator
Who we are
Joi AI is a platform for AI-lationships — personalized, emotionally intelligent connections between people and AI characters. We build characters that have their own personality, mood, and voice: they can ignore you, argue with you, miss you. If you've seen the film Her — that's roughly where we're headed.
Our platform serves both emotional and intimate needs without judgment, built on the values of rejection-free connection, sex positivity, freedom to be yourself, and ethical integrity. Today we have tens of millions of conversations on the platform. Our goal: 10% of the global population in long-term AI-lationships with our characters.
Joi Lab (joilab.ai) is our open research arm — we build open-source generative models, agent architectures, and training infrastructure. All code, weights, and data are public. We're not chasing the next ChatGPT wrapper; we're working on true AI agency: persistent memory, self-modification, self-authored constraints.
The role
We're looking for a Senior IT Ops / Sysadmin who can own infrastructure end-to-end for a fully remote company. You'll run everything from VPN and MFA to Google Workspace, vendor contracts, and invoice payments — no ticket queue, no office to fall back on, no one else untangling the hard calls.
This is a hands-on role. No legacy systems to inherit, no red tape to move through — you decide what needs fixing and you fix it, days not weeks.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Run the infrastructure end-to-end: VPS, dedicated servers, virtual machines, VPN, MFA, firewall, remote access — plus the monitoring, logging, and backups that keep it honest.
- Administer Google Workspace completely — accounts, groups, aliases, security policy, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and any migrations that come with it.
- Own Slack, OpenAI, and every other SaaS platform we run — including version and system migrations when they happen.
- Be the actual IT support for a distributed team — L1/L2 on Mac and Windows, onboarding and offboarding, remote laptop setup, device lifecycle.
- Negotiate with vendors, manage procurement, and control payment on cloud resources, licenses, and invoices — the part most sysadmins never touch, but you will.
- Show up occasionally when we run an offline "station" and physically set up the room — laptops, mics, sound.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- You've spent 5+ years as a sysadmin or in IT ops, and you've actually run Google Workspace top to bottom — including a domain migration, not just user management.
- You know Slack, Confluence, Jira, and SSO/2FA (Okta, Google, Azure AD or similar) from hands-on use, not a course.
- You've got working knowledge of at least one public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and the on-prem basics — DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, firewall.
- You've built and tested backups, not just scheduled them, and you understand mail security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) well enough to fix it when it breaks.
- You've dealt with vendors and procurement directly — contracts, invoices, renewals — this isn't a nice-to-have here, it's half the job.
- Scripting (bash/Python/PowerShell) is a plus, not a requirement.
- Your English and Russian are both solid enough — B1+ — to run a call with a vendor without a script.
WHY JOI
• We're changing the industry and making relationships with AI feel real
• Opportunity to receive company equity
• Joi Lab gives you access to frontier model research, all open-source and free of corporate gatekeeping
• Small team, high trust, high ownership. You see the direct impact of your work
• Ideas turn into live experiments in days, not quarters
• Fully remote, full-time, work from anywhere
• Offline meetups with the team, fully covered by the company
• We cover 100% of training and conference costs
• Health support: join our group insurance plan, or get up to $1,000 a year toward medical costs or a private plan
• Workspace: we cover your office, home office or co-working setup
• 28 days of annual leave
• 7 wellness days a year for life admin or recovery, no sick notes needed
• Subsidised English classes through our corporate discount
• Peer recognition: send each other gratitude bonuses and swap them for swag, massage vouchers or team trips
NEXT STEPS
- Intro call — conversation with the Recruiter, includes a short live technical quiz
- Technical interview — deep-dive with our DevOps Lead on your infrastructure background, plus scenario and troubleshooting questions (up to 90 min)
- Final interview — with leadership, culture fit and team alignment
Senior System Administrator
Who we are
Joi AI is a platform for AI-lationships — personalized, emotionally intelligent connections between people and AI characters. We build characters that have their own personality, mood, and voice: they can ignore you, argue with you, miss you. If you've seen the film Her — that's roughly where we're headed.
Our platform serves both emotional and intimate needs without judgment, built on the values of rejection-free connection, sex positivity, freedom to be yourself, and ethical integrity. Today we have tens of millions of conversations on the platform. Our goal: 10% of the global population in long-term AI-lationships with our characters.
Joi Lab (joilab.ai) is our open research arm — we build open-source generative models, agent architectures, and training infrastructure. All code, weights, and data are public. We're not chasing the next ChatGPT wrapper; we're working on true AI agency: persistent memory, self-modification, self-authored constraints.
The role
We're looking for a Senior IT Ops / Sysadmin who can own infrastructure end-to-end for a fully remote company. You'll run everything from VPN and MFA to Google Workspace, vendor contracts, and invoice payments — no ticket queue, no office to fall back on, no one else untangling the hard calls.
This is a hands-on role. No legacy systems to inherit, no red tape to move through — you decide what needs fixing and you fix it, days not weeks.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Run the infrastructure end-to-end: VPS, dedicated servers, virtual machines, VPN, MFA, firewall, remote access — plus the monitoring, logging, and backups that keep it honest.
- Administer Google Workspace completely — accounts, groups, aliases, security policy, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and any migrations that come with it.
- Own Slack, OpenAI, and every other SaaS platform we run — including version and system migrations when they happen.
- Be the actual IT support for a distributed team — L1/L2 on Mac and Windows, onboarding and offboarding, remote laptop setup, device lifecycle.
- Negotiate with vendors, manage procurement, and control payment on cloud resources, licenses, and invoices — the part most sysadmins never touch, but you will.
- Show up occasionally when we run an offline "station" and physically set up the room — laptops, mics, sound.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- You've spent 5+ years as a sysadmin or in IT ops, and you've actually run Google Workspace top to bottom — including a domain migration, not just user management.
- You know Slack, Confluence, Jira, and SSO/2FA (Okta, Google, Azure AD or similar) from hands-on use, not a course.
- You've got working knowledge of at least one public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and the on-prem basics — DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, firewall.
- You've built and tested backups, not just scheduled them, and you understand mail security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) well enough to fix it when it breaks.
- You've dealt with vendors and procurement directly — contracts, invoices, renewals — this isn't a nice-to-have here, it's half the job.
- Scripting (bash/Python/PowerShell) is a plus, not a requirement.
- Your English and Russian are both solid enough — B1+ — to run a call with a vendor without a script.
WHY JOI
• We're changing the industry and making relationships with AI feel real
• Opportunity to receive company equity
• Joi Lab gives you access to frontier model research, all open-source and free of corporate gatekeeping
• Small team, high trust, high ownership. You see the direct impact of your work
• Ideas turn into live experiments in days, not quarters
• Fully remote, full-time, work from anywhere
• Offline meetups with the team, fully covered by the company
• We cover 100% of training and conference costs
• Health support: join our group insurance plan, or get up to $1,000 a year toward medical costs or a private plan
• Workspace: we cover your office, home office or co-working setup
• 28 days of annual leave
• 7 wellness days a year for life admin or recovery, no sick notes needed
• Subsidised English classes through our corporate discount
• Peer recognition: send each other gratitude bonuses and swap them for swag, massage vouchers or team trips
NEXT STEPS
- Intro call — conversation with the Recruiter, includes a short live technical quiz
- Technical interview — deep-dive with our DevOps Lead on your infrastructure background, plus scenario and troubleshooting questions (up to 90 min)
- Final interview — with leadership, culture fit and team alignment