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      <Title>Engineering Site Lead</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p>We&#39;re seeking an exceptional Site Lead to establish and scale our London office. This is a unique opportunity to shape Perplexity&#39;s presence in one of the world&#39;s leading tech hubs, building teams and culture from the ground up while driving technical excellence in infrastructure and AI systems.</p>
<p><strong>What you&#39;ll do</strong></p>
<p>As Site Lead, you&#39;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&#39;ll report to senior leadership and work cross-functionally with teams across our global footprint.</p>
<p><strong>What you need</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>10+ years of experience in software engineering with 5+ years in infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or AI infrastructure roles</li>
<li>3+ years of people management experience, including building and scaling teams</li>
<li>Proven track record of establishing or significantly growing an engineering site or office</li>
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      <Jobtype>full-time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>hybrid</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange></Salaryrange>
      <Skills>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, 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</Skills>
      <Category>Engineering</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Perplexity</Employername>
      <Employerlogo>https://logos.yubhub.co/perplexity.com.png</Employerlogo>
      <Employerdescription>Perplexity is revolutionizing how people discover and interact with information through AI-powered search and knowledge tools. As we expand our global footprint, we&apos;re establishing a strategic presence in London to drive innovation and growth across Europe.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://jobs.ashbyhq.com</Employerwebsite>
      <Compensationcurrency></Compensationcurrency>
      <Compensationmin></Compensationmin>
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      <Applyto>https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/638e6823-be7f-46c6-9675-7b1197fc9b8c</Applyto>
      <Location>London</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-03-04</Postedate>
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