Core AI Platform & Infrastructure Lead

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch via Just Eat for Business

Barista bar

35 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Job summary

G-Research in London seeks an exceptional engineering manager to lead the Core AI team within Basecamp Technology. You’ll shape the platform strategy, oversee GPU compute, model serving, and secure environments, and communicate impact to senior stakeholders including the CTO.

As a senior leader, you’ll mentor product-focused engineers, drive open-source collaboration, and champion developer experience via SDKs and self-service tooling, while aligning with the firm’s AI strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading large-scale platform or infrastructure initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior 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, coordinating with platform teams to provide MCP services.
• Collaborating with the open-source group to stay up to date and drive feature development.
• 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

Leadership experience

Strong communication

C# expertise

Python expertise

Distributed systems design

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GPU infrastructure

Job description

G-Research in London seeks an exceptional engineering manager to lead the Core AI team within Basecamp Technology. You’ll shape the platform strategy, oversee GPU compute, model serving, and secure environments, and communicate impact to senior stakeholders including the CTO.

As a senior leader, you’ll mentor product-focused engineers, drive open-source collaboration, and champion developer experience via SDKs and self-service tooling, while aligning with the firm’s AI strategy.