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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
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Lead
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. The company innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI. Faculty brings unparalleled technical, product, and delivery expertise to clients in government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defense. The business and reputation are growing rapidly. Faculty is looking for individuals with intellectual curiosity and a desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, and Faculty empowers employees to envision and implement its most powerful applications.
- The Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good. This unit works on informing strategic government decisions, optimizing the NHS, and reducing bureaucratic backlogs, driving improvements at every level of Government.
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. We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
- If you don’t feel you meet all the requirements, but are excited by the role and know you bring some key strengths, please don't hesitate in applying as you might be right for this role, or other roles.
- We are open to conversations about part-time hours.
- We're happy for you to use AI for research and interview prep, but please don't use it to generate answers during live interviews.
- We use an AI note-taker (Metaview) in interviews so interviewers can stay present (which you can opt out of just let us know,)
- Every application is reviewed by a human, never decided by AI.