Director of AI Engineering

Job Description

About Faculty

At Faculty, we transform organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI.

With more than a decade of experience, we provide over 350 global customers with software, bespoke AI consultancy, and Fellows from our award winning Fellowship programme.

Our expert team brings together leaders from across government, academia and global tech giants to solve the biggest challenges in applied AI.

Should you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with, and learn from, some of the brilliant minds who are bringing Frontier AI to the frontlines of the world.

About the team

Our Government and Public Services business unit is committed to leveraging AI for the benefit of individual citizens and the public good.

From our work informing strategic government decisions, to optimising our NHS, through to protecting children from harmful online content - we know that AI offers opportunities to drive improvements at every level of Government and we are proud to lead on some of the most impactful work happening in the sector.

Because of the nature of the work we do with our Government clients, you may need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and willing to work on site with these customers from time to time.

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About the role

We believe AI can, and should, improve the lives of every citizen.

This influential position is the most senior technical authority in our Government and Public Services division. We'll look to you to direct the overall technical strategy alongside assembling, and managing, highly skilled teams to deliver truly innovate solutions for our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

Technical Delivery

• Providing oversight of highly complex technical work, supporting and steering delivery teams when needed

• Identifying products, tools and processes to improve/enhance our ability to deliver quality

• Advising on matters of solution architecture, advanced modelling and engineering by bringing your own extensive technical background of developing both infrastructure and modelling software in resource-constrained settings

Leadership

• Building a team focused on best-in-class technical excellence and delivery by setting standards, defining ways of working and championing best practice

• Overseeing the professional development and learning for technologists in the team

• Co-owning the overall strategy for the Government & Public Services business unit incl. designing team structure, managing budgets, coordinating staffing and recruitment and managing performance

Business Development

• Identifying new technical markets to pursue/ technologies to build and equally, potential customer and partners opportunities within those markets

• Working with Business Directors, and the commercial team to land and expand market opportunities

• Delivering as the technical authority in meetings with senior client stakeholders

Who we’re looking for:

To be successful in this role, you’ll have the ability to balance commercial, technical and strategic needs across multiple large-scale projects at a time, specifically in the Government & Public Services space.

Beyond that, our priority is someone who is highly motivated to work within the public services space, and has a passion for delivering solutions to some of the world's most interesting problems through the delivery of safe, impactful and human-led AI. Government experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

In particular you’ll:

• Be an established technology leader with a track record of leading both the strategy and the delivery of projects in the AI / Machine Learning space

• Have the ability to communicate complex, technical information to internal and external stakeholders

• Come from a hands-on background with real-world deployment experience of machine learning or AI applications in production and architecting hardware/software systems

• Show strong commercial aptitude, with the ability to maximise commercial, technical and strategic needs during end-to-end scoping of a project

• Have worked with, or in, full-stack technology teams and understand system architecture, design and good engineering fundamentals

The Interview Process

Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
Intro to our MD of Technology (45 minutes)
Technical Interview (90 minutes)
Commercial Interview (60 minutes)
Culture and Leadership Interview (60 minutes)
Meeting with our CEO and CCO (60 minutes)

What we can offer you:

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.

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.