Job Description
Faculty is one of Europe’s leading applied artificial intelligence companies. We build, deploy and operate AI solutions to increase our customers’ performance and help them realise their full potential. We believe that AI should be trustworthy, impactful and beneficial across society. Those principles have shaped our work with more than 230 organisations across the public and private sectors as we help them use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
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To give an example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we built the COVID-19 Early Warning System to forecast hospital admissions and life-saving equipment up to three weeks in advance. The ground-breaking tool helped frontline workers at the NHS save lives. We also work with the Home Office on Counter-Terrorism initiatives - Faculty built an AI model that automatically detects both new and existing propaganda videos and stops them from being uploaded.
What you’ll be doing
Faculty is looking for a Senior and Lead Software Engineer to join our growing team. Sat alongside other data engineers, scientists and designers, you will design, build, and deploy production grade software that leverages machine learning to help our customers solve high impact problems. In practice, this will mean writing Python, and Infrastructure as Code as part of a small, customer-focussed team.
The successful candidate will use Python, build and deploy Docker containers on Faculty Platform, as well as use cloud-native services like AWS Lambdas or Batch, as well as lower-level cloud services like virtual machines and network stacks, deployed with Terraform. You will build CI/CD pipelines on our GitLab deployment.
You’ll be joining teams responsible for building bespoke AI applications for clients. This involves working with a wide range of clients and projects covering counter terrorism, government bodies, retail, marketing, healthcare, built environment, and financial services. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with our teams of expert data scientists and machine learning engineers to develop models and machine learning tooling
- Gaining exposure to a wide variety of data science and data engineering projects spanning many industries
- Being involved at every stage of the engagement lifecycle from idea generation to launch
- Learning and applying the latest techniques and open source frameworks in data science and machine learning
- Scoping applications and providing technical support during business development
- Leading user acceptance testing with external stakeholders
- Mentoring other team members to promote their long-term growth
- Providing technical advice and subject matter expertise to commercial teams and product managers
- Establishing standards and best practices for how we deliver software across the organisation
Who We’re Looking For
- Experience with server-side languages. We use Python, so experience in that would be preferred
- Experience with container technologies and immutable infrastructure
- Experience using cloud services
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining large-scale backend applications.
- Knowledge of typical development and build tooling, such as version control, CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, Unix command line tools
- Knowledge of software engineering and DevOps best practices, including object oriented programming, test driven development, unit and integration testing
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent technical mentoring skills
- Excellent technical planning and scoping skills
- Experience collaborating with product managers and designers to define delightful product experiences
- Experience working with external stakeholders
What we can offer you
The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.
Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to advance our goal of making artificial intelligence real. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.
Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.
Some of our benefits…..
- Genuinely flexible working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success.
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family.
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions.
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Breakfast & Lunch daily, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees).
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime.