Core AI Platform Engineering Manager

G--researc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Healthcare

Pension

Lunch provided

35 days leave

Cycle-to-work

Team events

Job summary

G-Research, based in London, is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the Core AI team within Basecamp Technology. You will shape platforms and tools that scale AI research, communicating strategy to senior stakeholders and mentoring engineers to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

AI is embedded across teams; you will drive MCP gateway design, model serving, and developer experience, while advancing open-source collaboration and regulated-environment practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale platform or infrastructure initiatives.
• Strong communication skills to influence stakeholders across technical and business functions.
• Expert C# and Python skills, with experience building distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise, including operators, custom schedulers and multi-tenant cluster management.
• Experience with Docker, Terraform and CI/CD in regulated environments.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure and platform optimisation.
• Experience operating MCP servers at scale, sandboxing technologies and open-source contributions.

Responsibilities

• Driving the Core AI infrastructure roadmap in line with the firm's AI strategy.
• Leading build versus buy decisions across model serving and inference infrastructure.
• Designing and owning a centralised MCP gateway, working with platform teams to provide MCP services.
• Collaborate with the open-source group to stay up to date and help to drive priorities for feature development in open-source products.
• Defining secure sandboxing approaches for autonomous AI agents.
• Leading and mentoring a team of product-focused engineers.
• Driving developer adoption through SDKs, documentation and self-service tooling.

Skills

Platform leadership

Stakeholder influence

C# and Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

GPU infrastructure

MCP servers

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

G-Research, based in London, is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the Core AI team within Basecamp Technology. You will shape platforms and tools that scale AI research, communicating strategy to senior stakeholders and mentoring engineers to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

AI is embedded across teams; you will drive MCP gateway design, model serving, and developer experience, while advancing open-source collaboration and regulated-environment practices.