Senior Software Engineer

UK - Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead backend and edge/IoT engineering for critical work streams, bridging machine learning research and production-grade software for UK Defence clients.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Edge/IoT)

Builds

Robust, scalable backend and edge/IoT components for high-stakes defence applications

Domain

Defence / AI / Embedded Systems (via careerplan.io/jobs/bc4c8367-bf20-4ddc-88f2-6252af73929b-senior-software-engineer-at-faculty)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, compiled languages (Rust/C++/Go/C#/Java), system architecture, CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, mentoring

Preferred skills

agentic software development, complex problem solving

Technologies

Python, Rust, C++, Go, C#, Java, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Designing and building robust backend and edge/IoT components; Scoping and executing bounded technical problems; Shipping production-ready code; Implementing scalable CI/CD processes and containerization; Mentoring and pairing with fellow engineers; Collaborating with ML and Data Science teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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