At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data science projects, design algorithms, and mentor junior team members.
- Company: Join Faculty, a leader in impactful AI solutions with a diverse team.
- Benefits: Hybrid working model, access to powerful resources, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities to teach and contribute to open-source projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence and national security while collaborating with brilliant minds.
- Qualifications: Senior data science experience, strong programming skills, and leadership mindset required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
About Faculty
At Faculty, we transform organisational performance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI. With more than a decade of experience, we provide over 350 global customers with software, bespoke AI consultancy, and Fellows from our award-winning Fellowship programme. Our expert team brings together leaders from across government, academia and global tech giants to solve the biggest challenges in applied AI. We operate a hybrid way of working, meaning that you'll split your time across client location, Faculty's Old Street office and working from home depending on the needs of the project.
What you'll be doing:
- As a Senior Data Scientist in our Defence business unit you will lead project teams that deliver bespoke algorithms to our clients across the defence and national security sector.
- You will be responsible for conceiving the data science approach, for designing the associated software architecture, and for ensuring that best practices are followed throughout.
- You will help our excellent commercial team build strong relationships with clients, shaping the direction of both current and future projects.
- You will play an important role in the development of others at Faculty by acting as the designated mentor of a small number of data scientists, and by supporting the professional growth of data scientists on the project team.
- You will actively contribute to the growth of this reputation by delivering courses to high-value clients, by talking at major conferences, by participating in external roundtables, or by contributing to large-scale open-source projects.
- You will also have the opportunity to teach on the fellowship about topics that range from basic statistics to reinforcement learning, and to mentor the fellows through their 6-week project.
- Thanks to Faculty platform, you will have access to powerful computational resources, and you will enjoy the comforts of fast configuration, secure collaboration and easy deployment.
- You will often collaborate with software engineers and designers from our dedicated product team.
Who we're looking for:
- Senior experience in either a professional data science position or a quantitative academic field.
- Strong programming skills as evidenced by earlier work in data science or software engineering.
- An excellent command of the basic libraries for data science (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn) and familiarity with a deep-learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe).
- A high level of mathematical competence and proficiency in statistics.
- A solid grasp of essentially all of the standard data science techniques.
- A leadership mindset focused on growing the technical capabilities of the team.
- An appreciation for the scientific method as applied to the commercial world.
- Some commercial experience, particularly if this involved client-facing work or project management.
- Experience leading a team of data scientists.
What we can offer you:
The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals.
Remote Senior Data Scientist in Telford employer: Faculty AI
At Faculty, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. With access to powerful computational resources and opportunities for professional growth through mentorship and teaching, our team thrives in a supportive environment that values intellectual curiosity. Located in the vibrant Old Street area, you will be part of a diverse team dedicated to transforming organisational performance through impactful AI solutions.
