Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Faculty
Consumer and Services
2+ days a week in office
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Job no longer available
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
The safe, widespread adoption of AI.
Role
Who you are
- You are engineering-focused, with a keen interest and working knowledge of operationalised machine learning
- You have a desire to take cutting-edge ML applications into the real world
- We look for individuals who can support our values, foster our culture, and deliver for our organisation
- We like people who combine expertise and ambition with optimism -- who are interested in changing the world for the better -- and have the drive and intelligence to make it happen
- Think scientifically, even if you’re not a scientist - you test assumptions, seek evidence and are always looking for opportunities to improve the way we do things
- Love finding new ways to solve old problems - when it comes to your work and professional development, you don’t believe in ‘good enough’. You always seek new ways to solve old challenges
- Are pragmatic and outcome-focused - you know how to balance the big picture with the little details and know a great idea is useless if it can’t be executed in the real world
- Understanding of and interest in the full machine learning lifecycle, including deploying trained machine learning models developed using common frameworks such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
- Understanding of the core concepts of probability and statistics and familiarity with common supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
- Experience in Software Engineering including programming in Python
- Technical experience of cloud architecture, security, deployment, and open-source tools. Hands-on experience required of at least one major cloud platform
- Demonstrable experience with containers and specifically Docker and Kubernetes
- Comfortable in a high-growth startup environment
- Outstanding verbal and written communication
- Excitement about working in a dynamic role with the autonomy and freedom you need to take ownership of problems and see them through to execution
What the job involves
- You will design, build, and deploy production-grade software, infrastructure, and MLOps systems that leverage machine learning
- The work you do will help our customers solve a broad range of high-impact problems in the Consumer and Services space
- You will develop new methodologies and champion best practices for managing AI systems deployed at scale, with regard to technical, ethical and practical requirements
- You will support both technical and non-technical stakeholders to deploy ML to solve real-world problems
- To enable this, we work in cross-functional teams with representation from commercial, data science, product management and design specialities to cover all aspects of AI product delivery
- The Machine Learning Engineering team is responsible for the engineering aspects of our customer delivery projects
- Building software and infrastructure that leverages Machine Learning
- Creating reusable, scalable tools to enable better delivery of ML systems
- Working with our customers to help understand their needs
- Working with data scientists and engineers to develop best practices and new technologies; and
- Implementing and developing Faculty’s view on what it means to operationalise ML software
- Working in cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, designers and managers to deliver technically sophisticated, high-impact systems
- Leading on the scope and design of projects
- Offering leadership and management to more junior engineers on the team
- Providing technical expertise to our customers
- Technical Delivery
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Foreseeing the AI boom as far back as 2014, Faculty was founded to ensure the technology could be implemented where it was needed most. A European leader in applied AI, Faculty helps its clients accelerate and execute their highest priorities, whether that be new drug development, bringing renewable energy online or defending against terrorist attacks. It works with organisations such as OpenAI and Anthropic to ensure their latest AI models are safe, human-led and explainable.
The PhD-heavy team has delivered long-term impact for important organisations across healthcare, communications and counter-terrorism and has published papers on AI safety alongside leading universities. As a major voice concerning the safe use of artificial intelligence, Faculty's CEO has sat on the government's AI council and was invited to the first-ever AI Safety Summit.
With 10% of the UK's science and maths PhD holders applying for Faculty's talent programme, it remains a major pioneer in the space. It's shaping how we think about and implement AI, and will continue to be a prominent figure in the sector.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$3.9m
GRANT
Dec 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $57.1m
Company benefits
- Dental cover - 100% of dental fees covered, up to £500, including checkups and hygienist.
- Optical Cover - 100% of the cost of prescribed glasses and contact lenses up to £300 a year.
- 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 and chair.
- 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, 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
- Paid Maternity, Paternity, Adoption or Shared Parental Leave - we offer a progressive, gender neutral and generous parental leave policy here at Faculty. All parents are given 15 weeks leave at full pay in addition to statutory time off after 12 months of service.
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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