Senior Data Scientist (Safety)

Faculty

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

Core

Lead high-impact AI safety projects and shape upstream evaluation standards for frontier labs and government clients.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (AI safety & evaluation)

Builds

Upstream AI safety solutions and evaluation frameworks

Domain

AI Safety, National Security, Government & Defense

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, NumPy, Pandas, experiment design methodology, software architecture, project leadership, technical mentoring, scientific problem-solving, commercial awareness

Preferred skills

Experience with evaluation frameworks (e.g., Inspect AI), agentic harnesses, public speaking, open-source research

Technologies

Python, NumPy, Pandas, Inspect AI

Responsibilities

Lead project teams delivering AI safety solutions; conceive scientific experiment designs and build software architecture; mentor technical team members; partner with commercial teams to scope projects; contribute to thought leadership via publishing or speaking; ensure rigorous scientific methodology

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership

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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