Faculty

Senior Data Scientist (Safety)

London, Remote. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will lead high-impact AI safety projects and shape technical direction for upstream evaluation standards. This involves inventing evaluation frameworks, designing software architectures, and mentoring technical team members.

What you will do

  • Leading project teams that deliver upstream AI safety solutions and evaluation standards to Frontier Labs.
  • Conceiving core scientific experiment designs and building the associated software architecture for new engagements.
  • Mentoring technical team members on projects and supporting their professional growth through scientific guidance.
  • Partnering with commercial teams to shape project scope, assess technical feasibility, and translate complex problems into rigorous frameworks.
  • Contributing to Faculty’s thought leadership by advancing the science of AI evaluations, public speaking, or publishing open-source research.
  • Ensuring rigorous scientific methodology and technical best practices are followed across the project lifecycle.

Required qualifications

  • Senior experience in a professional data science role, upstream safety research, or a quantitative academic field with strong experiment design methodology.
  • Strong programming skills in Python using core scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas).
  • Deep curiosity and expertise across the data science toolkit.
  • High technical rigor and a collaborative mindset.
  • Commercial awareness to bridge complex scientific work with client requirements.
  • Ability to excel at scientific problem-solving, scoping technical work, and guiding project execution.

Nice to have

  • Evaluation frameworks and tooling (e.g. Inspect AI)
  • Agentic harnesses

Before you apply

  • Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)
  • Take Home Technical Assessment
  • Technical Interview (90 minutes)
  • Commercial Interview (60 minutes)

About the company

Faculty was established in 2014 to transform performance through human-centric AI. They work with over 350 global customers across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defence.