Lead, Core AI Platform & Infrastructure (London)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

35 days’ annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Healthcare

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

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 communicate platform strategy to senior stakeholders and shape tools for AI-powered research across the firm.

Ideal candidates bring strong C# and Python expertise, deep Kubernetes knowledge, and experience with GPU infrastructure, Docker, Terraform and CI/CD in regulated environments. A relocation-supportive, high-impact role awaits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale platform or infrastructure initiatives.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability 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

Communication

C# programming

Python programming

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

GPU infrastructure

MCP servers

Open-source contributions

Tools

Kubernetes

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 communicate platform strategy to senior stakeholders and shape tools for AI-powered research across the firm.

Ideal candidates bring strong C# and Python expertise, deep Kubernetes knowledge, and experience with GPU infrastructure, Docker, Terraform and CI/CD in regulated environments. A relocation-supportive, high-impact role awaits.