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About Faculty

Faculty transforms organizational performance through safe, impactful, and human-led AI. We are Europe’s leading applied AI company, recognizing the immense potential of AI a decade ago, long before the current hype. Founded in 2014 with our Fellowship program to transition academics into commercial data scientists, we now serve over 300 global customers with cutting-edge software and bespoke AI consultancy spanning retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental sectors. Our award-winning Fellowship continues to thrive.

Our AI expertise and safety standards led OpenAI to select us as their first technical partner, ensuring customers deploy advanced generative AI safely. Our impactful work includes saving lives during COVID-19 by forecasting NHS demand, creating green energy solutions, optimizing marketing spend, and enhancing online safety for children. AI is a transformational technology, and we seek passionate individuals to help our customers harness its vast benefits safely.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Life Sciences

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Faculty, you will design, build, and deploy production-grade software, infrastructure, and MLOps systems, leveraging machine learning. Your efforts will help clients address high-impact challenges in Life Sciences. This role is engineering-focused, with a strong emphasis on operationalized machine learning. Responsibilities include:

• Developing new methodologies and championing best practices for AI systems at scale
• Supporting both technical and non-technical stakeholders in deploying ML solutions
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including commercial, data science, product management, and design
• Building and maintaining software and ML infrastructure
• Creating reusable, scalable tools for ML systems
• Understanding and addressing customer needs
• Implementing Faculty’s best practices for operationalizing ML software

Technical Delivery

Who We're Looking For:

At Faculty, we value attitude and behavior as much as technical skill. We seek individuals who can embody our values, nurture our culture, and drive organizational success. Ideal candidates should:

• Think scientifically, testing assumptions and seeking evidence for continuous improvement
• Be innovative problem-solvers who never settle for 'good enough'
• Balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail, ensuring practical execution of ideas

Key Qualifications:

While we don’t expect applicants to have experience in every area, the following are illustrative requirements (70% is a rough guide):

• Experience in Software Engineering with proficiency in Python
• Technical knowledge of cloud architecture, security, deployment, and open-source tools (hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform)
• Experience with containers, specifically Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfort in a high-growth startup environment
• Understanding of the full machine learning lifecycle and familiarity with frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Knowledge of probability and statistics along with common supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Excitement for a dynamic role offering autonomy and ownership

Culture & Benefits at Faculty

Our diverse and distinctive team unites under a shared intellectual curiosity, driving us forward each day. This curiosity fuels our pursuit of truth and understanding, execution in a nimble and pragmatic manner, talent fostering, and assumption challenging. Faculty promises a professional challenge of a lifetime, where you'll work with brilliant minds and learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll make an impact at a high-growth startup poised for international expansion.

Our Benefits Include:

• Unlimited holidays for personal projects, breaks, or time with loved ones
• Flexible working arrangements to support personal needs and responsibilities
• All necessary home office equipment, including a laptop, keyboard, chair, and Sony headphones
• Equity options to share in Faculty’s growth and success
• Comprehensive private healthcare, optical, and dental insurance for you and your family, including 24/7 virtual GP appointments and pre-existing conditions
• Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus