Lead Software Engineer

UK - London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-22 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead AI/ML Engineer setting technical direction for complex AI/ML projects and large-scale AI-powered platforms in high-risk environments.

Role type

Senior IC Lead AI/ML Engineer (Software Architecture & Team Leadership)

Builds

Large-scale AI-powered platforms, shared software libraries, and microservices for government clients

Domain

Government / Public Services / AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

System architecture, microservices design, AI/ML model scaling, team management, technical roadmap definition, code delivery standards, hiring leadership

Preferred skills

Autonomous AI agent architecture, enterprise-wide standard establishment, stakeholder communication (via careerplan.io/jobs/c001b5ff-c837-4432-8325-db4660b39735-lead-software-engineer-at-faculty)

Technologies

Microservices, AI/ML frameworks, DevOps tools

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for complex software projects, drive development of shared libraries and microservices, oversee delivery of large-scale AI platforms, facilitate alignment between ML/Data Science/DevOps, manage and coach distributed engineering teams, establish enterprise-wide code and testing standards, lead hiring processes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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