As a Founding Infrastructure Engineer at Alpha Machines, you will architect the foundational layer of AlphaOS. You’ll design secure, sovereign infrastructure spanning hyperscaler clouds and bare-metal factory edges. This high-impact role involves building real-time data pipelines for industrial sensors and establishing SRE practices for critical national infrastructure within a vertically integrated environment.
Founding Infrastructure Engineer at Alpha Machines
Join Alpha Machines as a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build the mission-critical backbone of the physical AI economy by architecting a secure, sovereign platform that seamlessly bridges hyperscaler clouds with bare-metal factory edges. Founded by the co-founder of the $1B+ unicorn Beamery, Alpha Machines is re-industrialising Europe through the vertically integrated design and manufacturing of power electronics for aerospace, defence, and robotics, and you will own the architectural decisions that ensure these advanced manufacturing systems remain resilient, observable, and capable of processing high-rate industrial telemetry in real time.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed + Equity
Company
Alpha Machines
Role overview
AI for Manufacturing
Alpha Machines is building critical infrastructure for the physical AI economy. We are a team of engineers, builders and repeat (unicorn) founders, who believe that the moment has come for Europe to re-industrialise
What you will do
- Architect the end-to-end infrastructure for AlphaOS, orchestrating workloads across cloud providers and bare-metal systems at the factory edge.
- Design and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters that interface directly with manufacturing equipment and high-rate industrial sensor telemetry.
- Establish zero-trust security and sovereignty frameworks suitable for safety-critical environments, including identity management and secure supply-chain pipelines.
Who this is a fit for
- Deep expertise in production Kubernetes, specifically managing clusters on bare metal or edge environments rather than just managed cloud services.
- Proven experience deploying infrastructure within high-assurance or safety-critical sectors such as defence, aerospace, energy, or regulated finance.
- Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code and networking, with the ability to navigate multi-cloud trade-offs and communicate complex architectural decisions.
Why this role is remarkable
- Work directly with repeat unicorn founders to build the world’s most advanced factories and re-industrialise European manufacturing.
- Own the complete architectural direction of a platform that operates at the intersection of hyperscaler cloud and physical hardware.
- Shape critical national infrastructure for aerospace and defence sectors where reliability and security have real-world consequences beyond a screen.
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