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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

Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML systems while justifying key architectural decisions for production environments.
Driving the development of shared libraries and infrastructure for model deployment, lifecycle management, and CI/CD pipelines.
Leading model integration with infrastructure by creating APIs and services that enable scalable AI functionality in applications.
Overseeing the delivery of multiple complex workstreams and defining project problems in high-risk environments.
Ensuring reliable model performance by defining testing frameworks and model versioning systems for senior engineers to implement.
Managing and coaching multiple individuals, setting team-wide development goals to improve technical depth and client delivery.
Executing proactive recommendations for adopting new technologies and AI frameworks to maintain Faculty's competitive market position.

Requirements

Expert at defining technical roadmaps and managing project priorities to deliver high-stakes outcomes within high-growth environments.
Mastery of cloud-native ecosystems and orchestration tools like Kubernetes to automate complex model lifecycles and robust CI/CD pipelines.
Proven ability to design large-scale, AI-powered platforms and provide the technical justification for critical architectural decisions in high-risk environments.
Expert-level experience in operationalising models within frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch to solve complex, high-impact business challenges.
Define the engineering standards and architecture patterns for agentic systems, ensuring teams build to a consistent, production-grade bar.
Exceptional ability to align multi-disciplinary technical teams with broader business objectives and evolving customer needs.
Eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with clients from time to time.

Skills

AI/ML
Kubernetes
TensorFlow
PyTorch
CI/CD pipelines
API development
System Design

Location

On site (client-dependent)

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Part-time hours considered

Experience Level

Lead
Senior

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.
Faculty brings unparalleled depth of technical, product, and delivery expertise to clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defence.
Faculty's business and reputation are growing rapidly.
Faculty seeks individuals with intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
Faculty empowers employees to envision and implement powerful AI applications.
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 projects informing strategic government decisions, optimising the NHS, and reducing bureaucratic backlogs.

Equal Opportunity

We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one.
Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, strengthening 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.