Engineering Manager (Avatars)

London, United Kingdom
Last month
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Remote
Posted
20 Mar 2026 (Last month)

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.

As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.

Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

About the role

Lead the delivery of complex engineering projects in AI-powered video, avatar rendering, and generative media systems. Break down ambiguous, research-heavy initiatives into structured execution plans with predictable timelines. Make informed trade-offs between quality, latency, cost, and scalability, and communicate these clearly to stakeholders.

Challenge and support senior engineers working across backend systems, frontend rendering, and AI integrations to achieve technical excellence. Drive high standards in system design, reliability, and performance.

Understand engineering leveling and scale the team by identifying and filling skill gaps across distributed systems, AI integrations, and media pipelines. Partner with recruiting to build a world-class team capable of pushing the boundaries of generative video technology.

Monitor team performance proactively, addressing issues in delivery, system reliability, or quality. Create growth opportunities for engineers working on cutting-edge technical problems.

Navigate difficult conversations with clarity and empathy, especially in high-complexity technical discussions. Align decisions with long-term product and infrastructure strategy.

Team you would be leading – Avatars & Generative Media

The Avatars & Generative Media team focuses on enabling anyone to create professional, natural video without technical complexity by advancing AI-powered avatar rendering, video/image generation, and motion graphics.

The team owns:

  • Avatar creation, customization, and in-editor placement

  • Integration of generative AI models for video and image generation

  • A provider-agnostic framework for evaluating and integrating new AI models

  • Close collaboration with R&D teams to bring new capabilities into production

This is a highly technical team working across backend services, frontend rendering, and AI infrastructure.

What we're looking for:

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering complex, technically challenging projects (2+ years)

  • Strong systems thinking across distributed systems, APIs, and performance-sensitive applications

  • Experience working with or alongside AI/ML systems or media pipelines is a strong plus

  • Proven ability to scale teams and develop senior engineers

  • Strong track record in improving system reliability, performance, and developer productivity

  • Excellent communication skills, especially in deep technical discussions

  • Relevant engineering background building enterprise-grade SaaS products

Why join us?

We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why,

Our culture

At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible.You can find out more about these principles here.

Serving 50,000+ customers (and 80% of the Fortune 500)

We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

Proprietary AI technology

Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind.

AI Safety, Ethics and Security

AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear:People first. Always. Learn more about our commitments to AI Ethics, Safety & Security.

The hiring process:

  1. 30-40min call with a Technical Recruiter

  2. 45min call with an Engineering Manager

  3. Take-home assignment (no coding required) - writing an RFC, solution proposal

  4. 60min task debrief and technical discussion

  5. 45min call with leadership

The process does not need to take long - we can be done in seven working days.

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