Engineering Site Lead

46 minutes agoLead London, UK Hybrid Full Time Engineering Management Jobs by Perplexity

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

Series B Company intelligence

San Francisco, United States

Funding history

Growth/VC round ($200M)Series B ($74M)Series A ($26M)

Investors

Nat Friedman Paul Buchheit Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)Nvidia Kindred Ventures

About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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Skills

Aws Azure Ci/Cd Cloud Container Orchestration Distributed System Engineering Management Gcp Gpu Infrastructure Kubernetes Machine Learning Mentoring Model Serving Recruiting Software Engineering Stakeholder Management Terraform

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · London · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will establish and lead the London site, manage infrastructure or AI infrastructure teams, and set technical direction. You will build hiring plans and engineering culture, drive architecture and infrastructure reliability, partner with operational functions, and coordinate with global engineering, product, and research stakeholders.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience
5+ years of infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or AI infrastructure experience
3+ years of people management experience
Experience establishing or significantly growing an engineering site or office
Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure automation
Experience supporting large-scale AI or ML systems
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, container orchestration, and CI/CD systems
Communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

Establish and lead the London office
Build engineering culture and represent the site in strategic discussions
Partner with People, Finance, and Operations on site operations
Drive local community engagement and partnerships
Manage and mentor infrastructure or AI infrastructure teams
Set technical direction for London infrastructure initiatives
Drive architectural decisions, deployment, monitoring, scalability, and reliability
Build and scale infrastructure teams through hiring
Coordinate cross-site infrastructure strategy and knowledge sharing

Benefits

Equity
Comprehensive benefits package
Flexible work environment