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About the Role

As a Lead AI/ML Engineer, you will set the technical direction for complex AI/ML projects, ensuring models perform at scale and in production over time by balancing technical trade-offs and guiding team priorities. You will lead the delivery of large-scale AI-powered platforms in high-risk environments while defining project roadmaps across multiple complex workstreams. This is an ambitious, entrepreneurial leadership role where you will act as a trusted technical expert, defending your architectural rationale to senior stakeholders to ensure we deliver high-quality, high-value outputs.

Responsibilities

Setting the technical direction for complex software projects to ensure architectural decisions support long-term product and client goals.
Driving the development of shared software libraries and microservices that accelerate delivery across multiple client engagements.
Overseeing the delivery of large-scale AI-powered platforms while defining project roadmaps in high-risk environments.
Facilitating alignment between ML, Data Science, and DevOps crafts to ensure agentic software is built on a reliable foundation.
Managing and coaching a distributed team of engineers, setting development goals that align with organisational growth.
Establishing enterprise-wide standards for code delivery, testing, and system documentation across the software engineering craft.
Leading hiring processes for the software engineering craft to continue building a world-class technical team.

Requirements

You apply deep expertise across the application lifecycle to set high standards for system integration and end-user software quality.
You design large-scale, complex software ecosystems with the authority to justify critical architectural trade-offs in high-stakes environments.
You define the gold standard for production readiness, establishing application deployment protocols across diverse client engagements.
You translate high-level commercial strategy into technical roadmaps, ensuring AI work-streams are accurately estimated and seamlessly integrated.
You architecturally direct the development of products leveraging autonomous AI agents to ensure they are robust and effectively integrated.
You are a confident communicator, capable of conveying complex technical roadmaps and architectural risks to commercial partners and executive leadership.
Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with clients from time to time.

Location

On site with clients from time to time

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Part-time hours are open to conversation

Experience Level

Lead

Benefits

Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
Private healthcare and dental
Enhanced parental leave
Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
Sanctus Coaching

About the Company

Faculty was established in 2014 with the belief that AI would be the most important technology of our time.
Faculty has worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI.
Faculty innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI which moves the needle.
Faculty brings an unparalleled depth of technical, product, and delivery expertise to clients spanning government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defence.
Faculty's business and reputation are growing fast.
Faculty is looking for individuals who share intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
Faculty is a company where individuals will be empowered to envision AI's most powerful applications and to make them happen.
The Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good.
The Public Services Business Unit works on informing strategic government decisions, optimising the NHS, and reducing bureaucratic backlogs.
The Public Services Business Unit knows that AI offers opportunities to drive improvements at every level of Government and leads on impactful work in the sector.

Equal Opportunity

We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one.
Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, which strengthens our principle of seeking truth.
Diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live.
We are united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact.
We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations.