Performance Engineering Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead our Compute Performance Engineering team. The team's mission is to optimise large-scale workloads across our Linux HPC and Kubernetes compute environments. This is a hands-on, impactful role where you will design and implement techniques to maximise utilisation of our cutting-edge compute infrastructure.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities of the role include: Defining and delivering the long-term strategy for performance engineering across G-Research, providing leadership, mentoring and career development for engineers, communicating performance improvements and team impact effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, profiling, benchmarking and tuning large-scale workloads across CPU, GPU and memory-intensive jobs, developing reference implementations, libraries and tools to improve job efficiency and reliability, collaborating with systems, architecture and platform teams to evolve our compute stack, influencing long-term platform and infrastructure decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We need a technically credible leader with a passion for performance at scale. You'll bring a combination of deep systems knowledge with the ability to lead and grow a high-performing team.

Requirements

• Experience managing and developing engineers
• A strong background in computer science, such as BSc, MSc, PhD or equivalent experience
• Proven expertise in profiling, benchmarking and optimising distributed or large-scale workloads
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, with strong grounding in algorithms and performance optimisation
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, for example across scheduling, memory management, NUMA, networking and filesystems
• Experience with HPC schedulers and Kubernetes workload orchestration
• Hands-on experience with heterogeneous compute, such as GPUs, multi-core CPU workloads and high-memory systems
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across research, infrastructure and engineering domains
• Familiarity with profiling and monitoring tools, including perf, eBPF, VTune, Flamegraphs, Prometheus and Grafana

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 35 days' annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events