Principal Machine Learning Engineer

The role

You will serve as the technical authority for ML engineering, setting architectural standards and owning the vision for complex AI programmes. You will influence engineering strategy, coach senior talent, and act as a technical partner to executive clients.

What you will do

• Defining and owning the organisation-wide technical vision for ML engineering
• Establishing architectural standards and engineering practices
• Overseeing end-to-end delivery of flagship, business-critical ML programmes
• Driving strategic adoption of new technologies, platforms, and ways of working
• Cultivating senior engineering talent and coaching leads and managers
• Acting as the principal technical voice in C-suite and executive client engagements
• Leading significant sales and pre-sales opportunities
• Partnering with Data Science, Commercial, and Infrastructure leadership

Required qualifications

• Recognised ML engineering authority
• Mastery of Python
• Proven track record of designing and operationalising production-grade ML systems at scale
• Expert across multiple major Cloud Solution Providers
• Deep expertise in containerisation, orchestration, and MLOps at scale
• Proven track record of developing senior engineering talent, coaching leads and managers
• Visible external profile through publications, conference contributions, open-source leadership, or industry influence
• Ability to operate at the executive level

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.