Lead, Core AI Platform & Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

Barista bar

35 days annual leave

Company pension contributions

Healthcare

Job summary

G-Research in London is seeking an exceptional engineering manager to lead the Core AI team within the Basecamp Technology group. You will drive the platform strategy, mentor product-focused engineers and coordinate with senior stakeholders including the Head of Basecamp Technology and CTO.

You will own infrastructure roadmaps, shape secure sandboxing for autonomous AI agents, and advance a centralized MCP gateway with Kubernetes-based multi-tenant solutions.

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.

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

Leadership

C# & Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

G-Research in London is seeking an exceptional engineering manager to lead the Core AI team within the Basecamp Technology group. You will drive the platform strategy, mentor product-focused engineers and coordinate with senior stakeholders including the Head of Basecamp Technology and CTO.

You will own infrastructure roadmaps, shape secure sandboxing for autonomous AI agents, and advance a centralized MCP gateway with Kubernetes-based multi-tenant solutions.