Lead Data Scientist

LondonFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-10-23

Core

Lead Data Scientist setting technical direction and delivering high-impact, production-grade AI solutions for energy, transition, and environment clients.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Data Scientist (Strategy & Delivery)

Builds

Production-grade AI solutions for energy operators, GreenTech startups, and national infrastructure providers

Domain

Clean energy, net-zero transition, utility efficiency

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning domain expertise, technical leadership, project management, client relationship management, cross-functional collaboration, risk management, architectural design

Preferred skills

Experience with multi-disciplinary workstreams, business unit-level initiative oversight

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Setting technical direction for complex projects, designing and implementing production-grade solutions, defining project roadmaps, leading technical scoping for sales opportunities, managing client relationships, driving adoption of best practices, mentoring data scientists

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