Lead Software Engineer, Faculty
Machine Learning
2+ days a week in office
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
Be an early applicant
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
The safe, widespread adoption of AI.
Role
Who you are
- You are a recognised technical expert who sets the standard for code quality and solution design, possessing the breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem
- You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are proactive in recommending new technologies or ways of working to keep our offering ahead of the competition
- You bring expert-level experience in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications
- You are a proven leader, capable of managing other managers and setting team-wide development goals to elevate client delivery
- You thrive in high-stakes environments, demonstrating the ability to turn innovative ideas into practical, measurable outcomes for global energy operators
- You are a compelling communicator who can confidently defend technical rationales to senior stakeholders and guide both technical and non-technical teams
What the job involves
- Join us as a Lead Software Engineer, with a focus on Machine Learning, 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 client-side deployments to advising on AI strategy, 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
- Setting the technical direction and overseeing delivery of high-risk, ill-defined software and infrastructure projects while balancing strategic trade-offs and helping teams prioritise in shifting environments, taking full ownership of successful outcomes for our most challenging projects
- Designing and developing reliable, production-grade ML systems and justifying critical architectural decisions to ensure robust delivery
- Developing clear, comprehensively scoped roadmaps for novel solutions to help customers achieve their strategic goals and accurately estimating effort on large workstreams to ensure successful and timely delivery
- Engaging with technical and non-technical customers at all stages of the customer lifecycle, giving reasoned and credible advice and opinions on a broad range engineering topics
- Collaborating proactively both within multidisciplinary delivery teams and across the engineering community at Faculty to overcome technical challenges
- Coaching team members on specific technologies and driving the development of shared organisational resources and libraries to streamline delivery and improve engineering methods across the company
- Leading the hiring and selection process while mentoring multiple individuals and managers to define the future shape of the engineering team
Application process
- Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
- Introduction to the role (45 minutes)
- Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes)
- System Design Interview (90 minutes)
- Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)
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 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Oct 2019
$41.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54.1m
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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