Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Faculty
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Location: London
Job Description:

Requirements

  • You are a technical expert among your peers, capable of going deep on particular topics and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem
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  • You possess strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
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  • You are an expert in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications
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  • You have hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes
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  • You can successfully manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team-wide development goals to improve client delivery
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  • You find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes
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  • You’re an excellent communicator who can proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders

What the job involves

  • Join us as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable
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  • This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation. If you’re ready to manage high-risk projects and deliver practical, innovative outcomes, this is your chance to shape our future
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  • Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities
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  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions
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  • Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple work-streams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments
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  • Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them
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  • Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth
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  • Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition
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  • Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders

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Posted: May 30th, 2026