Head of Engineering — AI Infrastructure & Scale

Radiant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Radiant is redefining AI infrastructure and is building a purpose-built platform for sovereignty, performance, and scale. As Head of Engineering, you will lead a 30-35 engineer team today, growing to 150-200+ as Radiant expands internationally, and partner with Product, Customer, Infrastructure, SRE, and Operations teams.

You will own engineering strategy, delivery, and quality, driving reliable, observable, and production-ready systems while shaping the organisation's growth and evolving

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and scaling engineering organisations of 20+ engineers through growth phases.
• Experience managing managers and developing senior engineers and technical leaders.
• Proven ability to evolve small teams into multiple aligned, accountable units.

Responsibilities

• Hire and scale the engineering organisation with strong leadership layers across managers and senior engineers.
• Own engineering hiring, performance, and organisational health.
• Design and evolve the organisation as the company scales across teams, sites, and regions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Execution

Technical judgement

Systems thinking

Operational mindset

Organisational design

Calm leadership

Ownership

Job description

Radiant is redefining AI infrastructure and is building a purpose-built platform for sovereignty, performance, and scale. As Head of Engineering, you will lead a 30-35 engineer team today, growing to 150-200+ as Radiant expands internationally, and partner with Product, Customer, Infrastructure, SRE, and Operations teams.

You will own engineering strategy, delivery, and quality, driving reliable, observable, and production-ready systems while shaping the organisation's growth and evolving