Principal Data Scientist

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

Core

Drive high-impact transformation in the Defence sector by owning complex machine learning delivery, defining sector-specific strategy, and acting as a trusted technical authority for client engagements.

Role type

Principal Data Scientist (Strategy & Delivery Lead)

Builds

Human-centric AI solutions for the Defence sector

Domain

Defence / National Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | client delivery

Required skills

Machine learning strategy, Generative AI and agentic AI with LLMs, Python, scalable codebase maintenance, technical selling, client management, mentoring

Preferred skills

Deep Defence domain expertise, prior direct management experience

Technologies

Python, Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, agentic AI

Responsibilities

Own and grow a strategic portfolio of ML work for Defence; translate client challenges into technical roadmaps; write production-grade code; serve as technical authority and community representative; partner on commercial selling and business growth; mentor junior data scientists

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