Faculty Fellowship Programme, Faculty
Data Science, January 2026
Fellows are paid London Living Wage for the duration of the programme.
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Posted today
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Posted today
Fellows are paid London Living Wage for the duration of the programme.
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help organisations across the public and private sectors use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
Role
Who you are
- Must be a finished PhD or Master's in a STEM subject with some data science/machine learning experience
- A high level of mathematical competence
- The ability to code or have programming experience, especially in Python
- Some experience with theoretical concepts of statistical learning (e.g. hypothesis testing, Bayesian Inference, Regression, SVM, Random Forests, Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, optimisation)
- Experience with some coding libraries frequently used in data science
- The ability to communicate effectively
- Experience composing and following a project plan/sticking to self-imposed deadlines
- You will need to be able to work in London for the duration of the programme
What the job involves
- The Faculty Fellowship programme helps academics become highly-skilled data scientists and machine learning engineers, transitioning successfully into careers and industries that are ready to benefit from artificial intelligence
- After two weeks of intensive lectures and workshops at Faculty, wherein fellows will learn how to apply their technical knowledge towards the application of data science, fellows are paired with project companies for a seven-week data science project, during which fellows are paid the London Living Wage
- The finale of the fellowship is Demo Day
- Fellows have the opportunity to present their hard work to an audience of 100+ guests
- The event is a great chance to network with hiring managers and influential individuals from a wide range of businesses from London, the UK and Europe
- The programme runs from Monday 26th January to Friday 27th March 2026 (full-time, Monday to Friday). Please note that the dates for the program are tentative and may be adjusted. We will notify all applicants if the dates do change. We appreciate your flexibility and understanding
Application process
- Please submit your application no later than Wednesday 5th November 2025 at 17:00 (GMT). Early submissions have a significant advantage as we have more time to review them.
- The coding test will take place at the end of October 2025. Candidates will be notified about the coding test via email
- The interviews will take place from mid November 2025. We will interview candidates via Google Meet. Candidates will be notified about the interviews by email
- Regardless of the application outcome, you will be notified by January 9th 2026 latest
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to determine how they can utilise AI, and then assist them in implementing the necessary skills, strategy, and software.
The team has developed a platform with a large cloud computing space for accessing vast amounts of data for use in designing and testing AI models. Frontier, its Design Intelligence platform, develops digital twins for its customers, which give them more insight into useful applications for AI. Applied AI is Faculty's consulting division, working with clients to build and deploy tailored AI solutions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries across the public and private sectors, including healthcare, retail, government and energy.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$40.2m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52.7m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees)
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime
Company values
- Grow the Best Team - Only hire people you’re convinced will make Faculty better. Take others’ development as seriously as your own. Build strong and collaborative teams
- Do Great Work - Master your craft. Take pride in your work, even when no one is watching. Demand the highest standards from yourself and others. Work hard, but do it sustainably
- Be Humble & Kind - Recognise that you’re always learning, and have something to learn from everyone. Always make the decision that is best for faculty, but treat people kindly as you do it
- Act with Integrity - Have the courage to maintain integrity even when it’s costly to do so. Demand this from others without hesitation
- Seek Truth - Seek the truth over winning the argument. Understand the root cause. Create an atmosphere in which the best idea succeeds, regardless of who or where it comes from.
- Maximise Impact - Care about the impact of your work. Find the thing that is most important to your customer. Design the best solution, not just what’s easiest or fashionable. Get it done fast. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Marc Warner
(CEO)Previously a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing.
Andrew Brookes
(CTO)Previously a CTO at Hillgate and Vice President at BlackRock.
Angie Ma
(Co-Founder)Previously a Scientific Consultant at Bio Nano Consulting.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faculty
Angie Ma (Co-Founder)
- AI changes everything, and so must we to make sure our people reflect the real diversity of society. We believe that recruiting talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds encourages people to think differently and be more creative
- We welcome difference whether it’s ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability so please be yourself!
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