Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM Our Retail and Consumer experts are dedicated to helping clients in an industry which is being transformed by new technologies and evolving consumer expectations. Leveraging over a decade of experience in Applied AI, we combine exceptional technical and delivery expertise to empower businesses to adapt and thrive. #LI-PRIO ABOUT THE ROLE Join us as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable. This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation. If you're ready to manage high-risk projects and deliver practical, innovative outcomes, this is your chance to shape our future. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING * Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities. * Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions. * Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments. * Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them. * Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth. * Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition. * Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR * You are a technical expert among your peers, capable of going deep on particular topics and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem. * You possess strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch. * You are an expert in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications. * You have hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes. * You can successfully manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team-wide development goals to improve client delivery. * You find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes. * You're an excellent communicator who can proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Introduction to the role (45 minutes) 3. Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes) 4. System Design Interview (90 minutes) 5. Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes) OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re 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. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working 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.

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM   Our Public Services Business Unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good. From our work informing strategic government decisions, to optimising our NHS, through to reducing bureaucratic backlogs - we know that AI offers opportunities to drive improvements at every level of Government and we are proud to lead on some of the most impactful work happening in the sector. Because of the nature of the work we do with our Government clients, you may need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with these clients from time to time. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Faculty, 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.     WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * 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.     WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * You are an expert at defining technical roadmaps and managing project priorities to deliver high-stakes outcomes within high-growth environments. * You possess mastery of cloud-native ecosystems and orchestration tools like Kubernetes to automate complex model lifecycles and robust CI/CD pipelines. * You have a proven ability to design large-scale, AI-powered platforms and provide the technical justification for critical architectural decisions in high-risk environments. * You bring expert-level experience in operationalising models within frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch to solve complex, high-impact business challenges. * You define the engineering standards and architecture patterns for agentic systems, ensuring teams build to a consistent, production-grade bar. * You demonstrate an exceptional ability to align multi-disciplinary technical teams with broader business objectives and evolving customer needs. THE INTERVIEW PROCESS   1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Introduction to the Hiring Manager (30 minutes) 3. Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes) 4. System Design Interview (90 minutes) 5. Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)   #LI-PRIO OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re 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. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working 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.

Faculty

WHY FACULTY? We established Faculty in 2014 because we thought that AI would be the most important technology of our time. Since then, we’ve worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI. You can read about our real-world impact here. We don’t chase hype cycles. We innovate, build and deploy responsible AI which moves the needle - and we know a thing or two about doing it well. We bring an unparalleled depth of technical, product and delivery expertise to our clients who span government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence. Our business, and reputation, is growing fast and we’re always on the lookout for individuals who share our intellectual curiosity and desire to build a positive legacy through technology. AI is an epoch-defining technology, join a company where you’ll be empowered to envision its most powerful applications, and to make them happen. ABOUT THE TEAM Bringing medicine to patients is complex, expensive and high-risk. Faculty’s Life Science’s team is concentrated on building AI solutions which optimise the research and commercialisation of life-changing therapies. We partner with major pharma firms, academic research centres and MedTech start-ups to design and deliver solutions which address critical healthcare challenges, and help to democratise health for all. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, we’ll look to you to lead development and deployment of cutting-edge AI systems for our diverse clients. You’ll design, build, and deploy scalable, production-grade ML software and infrastructure that meets rigorous operational and ethical standards. This is an ambitious, cross-functional role requiring a blend of technical expertise, engineering leadership, and confident client-facing skills. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING: * Leading technical scoping and architectural decisions for high-impact ML systems * Designing and building production-grade ML software, tools, and scalable infrastructure * Defining and implementing best practices and standards for deploying machine learning at scale across the business * Collaborating with engineers, data scientists, product managers, and commercial teams to solve critical client challenges and leverage opportunities * Acting as a trusted technical advisor to customers and partners, translating complex concepts into actionable strategies * Mentoring and developing junior engineers, actively shaping our team's engineering culture and technical depth WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR: * You understand the full ML lifecycle and have significant experience operationalising models built with frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch * You bring deep expertise in software engineering and strong Python skills, focusing on building robust, reusable systems * You have demonstrable hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including architecture, security, and infrastructure * You've extensive experience working with container and orchestration tools such at Docker & Kubernetes to build and manage applications at scale * You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments, demonstrating ownership and autonomy in driving projects to completion * You communicate exceptionally well, confidently guiding both technical teams and senior, non-technical stakeholders THE INTERVIEW PROCESS 1. Talent Team Screen (30 minutes) 2. Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes) 3. System Design Interview (90 minutes) 4. Commercial Interview (60 minutes) OUR RECRUITMENT ETHOS We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one. We know that diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth. And we know from experience that diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live. We’re 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. Some of our standout benefits: * Unlimited Annual Leave Policy * Private healthcare and dental * Enhanced parental leave * Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working * Sanctus Coaching * Hybrid Working 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.