UK - London Hybrid Full-time

Faculty is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Responsibilities

  • 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 work-streams 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
  • Private healthcare and dental
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
  • Sanctus Coaching
  • Hybrid Working

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Our Interview 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)

Our Recruitment Ethos

  • We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one.
  • Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, and that strengthens our principle of seeking truth.
  • 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.

Additional Information

  • Open to conversations about part-time hours.
  • Encourages applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.
  • Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought and strengthens principle of seeking truth.
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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.
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Job Details
Department Professional & Financial Services
Category Data & ML
Posted 3 months ago