Technical Director, Faculty
Defence
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Old Street)
Helping clients use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Job no longer available
Helping clients use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Old Street)
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
- Provide a balance of commercial, technical and strategic skills across multiple large-scale projects, specifically in the Defence & National Security sector
- Be highly motivated to work within Defence and has a passion for delivering solutions to some of the world's most interesting problems in that space
- Have an established background as a technology leader within both the strategy and the delivery of projects in the AI / Machine Learning space
- Have real-world, hands-on deployment experience of machine learning or AI applications in production and architecting hardware/software systems
- Show strong commercial aptitude, with the ability to maximise commercial, technical and strategic needs during end-to-end scoping of a project
What the job involves
- Shaping the overall technical strategy for their business unit and supporting and steering delivery teams when needed
- Identifying products, tools and processes to improve/enhance our ability to deliver quality
- Advising on matters of solution architecture, advanced modelling and engineering drawing from your own experience of developing both infrastructure and modelling software in resource-constrained settings
- Cultivating a team focused on best-in-class technical excellence and delivery by setting standards, defining ways of working and championing best practice
- Co-owning the overall strategy for the Defence Unit incl. designing team structure, managing budgets, coordinating staffing and recruitment and managing performance
Application process
- Talent Screen (30 mins)
- Introduction to the role (60 mins)
- Technical Interview (90 mins)
- Commercial Interview (60 mins)
- Leadership Interview (60 mins)
- Meet with our CEO (60 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to figure out what they could do with AI, and then help them to do it through implementing the right skills, strategy and software.
The team have developed a platform with large cloud computing space for accessing large amounts of data usable to design and test AI models. As businesses realise the importance of using data to drive growth and stay competitive, Faculty have focused on making AI real through real world deployments and aim provide data to organisations so that they can make better decisions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries, including healthcare, retail, government and energy. They are just one of the many companies utilising AI, but it’s their ability to work alongside organisations and apply the findings that will really help them to succeed.
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Autonomy
"People here get a lot of trust to figure things out. They also get the chance to earn a lot of responsibility at a relatively early stage in their..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$40.2m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52.8m
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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