# Engineering Site Lead

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking an exceptional Site Lead to establish and scale our London office. This is a unique opportunity to shape Perplexity's presence in one of the world's leading tech hubs, building teams and culture from the ground up while driving technical excellence in infrastructure and AI systems.

## What you'll do

As Site Lead, you'll serve as the face of Perplexity in London, responsible for building our technical organization, fostering a world-class engineering culture, and directly managing one or more infrastructure teams. You'll report to senior leadership and work cross-functionally with teams across our global footprint.

## What you need

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with 5+ years in infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or AI infrastructure roles

- 3+ years of people management experience, including building and scaling teams

- Proven track record of establishing or significantly growing an engineering site or office

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- cloud platforms
- infrastructure automation
- GPU infrastructure and orchestration
- ML training and inference pipelines
- Model serving and deployment at scale
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- container orchestration
- CI/CD systems

### Nice to have
- experience at companies focused on AI/ML, search, or large-scale consumer applications
- previous experience as a site lead, office lead, or similar multi-team leadership role
- background in building infrastructure for LLM training or inference
- contributions to open-source infrastructure or AI infrastructure projects
- experience scaling teams from 0 to 20+ engineers
- active involvement in the London or European tech community

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