About Faculty
Faculty transforms organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-led AI.
We are Europe’s leading applied AI company, and saw its potential a decade ago - long before the current hype cycle.
We were founded in 2014 with our Fellowship programme, training academics to become commercial data scientists.
Today, we provide over 300 global customers with industry-leading software, and bespoke AI consultancy for retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental organisations, as well as our award winning Fellowship.
Our expertise and safety credentials are such that OpenAI asked us to be their first technical partner, helping customers deploy cutting-edge generative AI safely.
Our high-impact work has saved lives through forecasting NHS demand during covid, produced green energy by routing boats towards the wind, slashed marketing spend by predicting customer spending habits, and kept children safe online.
AI is an epoch-defining technology. We want people to join us who can help our customers reap its enormous benefits safely.
About the role
Faculty Applied AI is the professional services arm of Faculty. As a founding member of the Applied AI platform team you will be responsible for building and maintaining the data science, ML ops, and deployment tooling that enables our team of over 100 Data Scientists and Engineers to deploy full-stack machine learning products for our customers.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll work closely, as part of a small team, in collaboration with our customer-facing technologists. The platform you own will be a significant lever on the quality of our deployed software. Taking ownership for our existing tooling, you’ll identify and prioritise the technology our teams need to deliver our world-leading machine learning solutions; whether that’s new features for our notebook development environment, improvements to our model monitoring tooling or how we deploy our systems into a variety of client environments.
What we’re looking for
- A software engineer who loves building tools to enable others, understanding their impact, and improving them.
- Understanding of the machine learning product lifecycle and how data scientists go from exploration to deployed models.
- Systems programming in at least one programming language
- Infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps in one or more major cloud environment
- Experience working as part of a small, fast-moving team
- Someone who takes ownership of what they build and supports what they deploy
Specifics that will help:
- MLOps using MLFlow.
- Programming in Scala and Python: Some of our existing tooling is in scala, and python is the language of our data science workflows, but we’re open to using the right technologies for the job
- DevSecOps: Gitlab CI/CD, Helm
- IaaC: Cloudformation, Terraform
- Distributed, containerised microservices architectures: docker, kubernetes
- Experience in a platform/internal enablement team
Culture & Benefits at Faculty
The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.
Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.
Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.
Some of our benefits:
- 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.
- Genuinely flexible 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.
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental insurance 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
- Free breakfast, weekly lunches and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat when you're in the office.
- 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.