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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Faculty· Engineering
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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead Machine Learning Engineer to spearhead technical direction and delivery of complex AI and software projects within Faculty’s Life Sciences division, combining deep technical leadership with people management and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Setting the technical direction for complex ML and software projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities
  • Architecting, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems, and justifying key architectural decisions
  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments
  • Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them
  • Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth
  • Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies, tools and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition
  • Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Technical expert among peers with deep specialization and breadth
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one compiled or strongly-typed language (e.g. Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript)
  • Expert in at least one major Cloud Provider (Azure, GCP, AWS) and experience leading teams to build full-stack web applications
  • Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Experience managing and coaching a team of engineers and setting development goals
  • Ability to find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and own successful outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills to help customers and guide technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipPythonCompiled/strongly-typed languageCloud providersContainerisationOrchestrationPeople management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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