Principal Machine Learning Engineer

UK - London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect scalable, large-scale systems and set technical direction for flagship AI initiatives in the Financial Services sector.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Scalable AI solutions for financial institutions

Domain

Financial Services / Applied AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, advanced statistics, software architecture, system design, strategic technical leadership, complex problem-solving

Preferred skills

Domain expertise in Financial Services, entrepreneurial mindset, ability to communicate complex concepts to customers

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Architect sophisticated software and data science frameworks for large-scale systems; Design integrated system architectures that scale effectively; Solve intricate technical challenges spanning multiple projects; Set strategic technical direction for flagship projects; Influence company-wide technical strategy; Advise major initiatives as a technical authority

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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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