Lead Data Scientist

Faculty

UK - London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-26 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead Data Scientist setting technical direction and delivering high-impact AI solutions for life sciences clients.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (life sciences)

Builds

Production-grade AI solutions for research and commercialisation of therapies

Domain

Life sciences / Healthcare

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Project management, customer leadership, machine learning domain expertise, technical leadership, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning

Preferred skills

Experience with business unit-level initiatives, managing ill-defined high-risk tasks

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Setting technical direction for complex projects, designing production-grade solutions, defining project roadmaps, leading technical scoping, managing stakeholder relationships, driving best practices, mentoring team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight

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About Faculty

Faculty is one of the world's leading applied AI companies, helping many of the organisations that shape our world to adopt AI successfully and safely. We play an important role in the emerging AI safety ecosystem. We already have many of the key Frontier Labs as clients, including Open AI and Anthropic, for whom we provide third-party red teaming, technical testing and other AI safety services. And we work with the UK government and other international governments on AI safety, including helping set up the AI Security Institute and delivering technical work which catalysed the first global AI