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About the Role
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead high-impact AI safety projects and shape the technical direction of upstream evaluation standards. This role requires hands-on scientific thinking and technical excellence combined with strong project leadership. You will invent novel evaluation frameworks, design robust software architectures, mentor technical team members, and ensure delivery rigour across engagements—all while partnering with Frontier Labs to solidify our reputation as a leader in practical, high-stakes AI safety.
Responsibilities
- Leading project teams that deliver upstream AI safety solutions and evaluation standards to Frontier Labs.
- Conceiving core scientific experiment designs and building the associated software architecture for new engagements.
- Mentoring technical team members on projects and supporting their professional growth through scientific guidance.
- Partnering with commercial teams to shape project scope, assess technical feasibility, and translate complex problems into rigorous frameworks.
- Contributing to Faculty’s thought leadership by advancing the science of AI evaluations, public speaking, or publishing open-source research.
- Ensuring rigorous scientific methodology and technical best practices are followed across the project lifecycle.
Requirements
- Possess senior experience in a professional data science role, upstream safety research, or a quantitative academic field with strong experiment design methodology.
- Demonstrate strong programming skills in Python using core scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas).
- Possess deep curiosity and expertise across the data science toolkit, with a drive to develop novel evaluation standards for specialized domains.
- Exhibit high technical rigor and a collaborative mindset focused on nurturing team capabilities and sharing technical knowledge.
- Demonstrate commercial awareness, with the ability to bridge complex scientific work with client requirements in Frontier Labs.
- Excel at scientific problem-solving, scoping technical work, and guiding project execution to meet high standards on structured timelines.
- Eligible for Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with clients from time to time.
Skills
- Python
- NumPy
- Pandas
- Evaluation frameworks and tooling (e.g. Inspect AI)
- Agentic harnesses
- AI safety
- Data science toolkit
- Scientific problem-solving
- Project leadership
Location
- On site with clients from time to time
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Part-time hours considered
Experience Level
- Senior experience
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 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 fast.
- Faculty is looking for individuals who share intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology.
- Faculty empowers individuals to envision and implement the most powerful applications of AI.
- The National Security and AI Safety business unit is dedicated to advancing the responsible development and deployment of AI in support of national security and global stability.
- This unit works at the frontier of high-stakes, high-impact missions, strengthening mission-critical capabilities and providing AI safety red teaming and evaluation.
- Faculty partners with Government and major tech organizations to ensure AI is transformative, secure, trustworthy, and safe.
Equal Opportunity
- Faculty aims to grow the best team, not the most similar one, fostering diversity of thought through diverse individuals.
- Diversity strengthens the principle of seeking truth and leads to better work relevant to the world.
- The team is united by deep intellectual curiosity and a desire to use abilities for measurable positive impact.
- Strong encouragement for applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations.