Lead Software Engineer

Faculty

UK - Remote🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-18 → 2026-10-07

Core

Lead backend and edge/IoT engineering for high-stakes Defence projects, bridging proof-of-concept to robust systems.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Software Engineer (Defence/AI)

Builds

Scalable backend and edge/IoT software solutions for government defence clients

Domain

Defence sector + AI/ML integration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, compiled languages (Rust/C++/Go), system architecture, DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes), team leadership, technical mentoring

Preferred skills

Experience shipping code to paying customers, ability to distill complex concepts for stakeholders (via careerplan.io/jobs/043ba183-f468-4b8d-a61c-c536247c803e-lead-software-engineer-at-faculty)

Technologies

Python, Rust, C++, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a squad of engineers; Design and build complex backend/edge components; Implement CI/CD and containerization strategies; Collaborate on integrating AI/ML into software architectures

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

About Faculty

Faculty is one of the world's leading applied AI companies, helping many of the organisations that shape our world to adopt AI successfully and safely. We play an important role in the emerging AI safety ecosystem. We already have many of the key Frontier Labs as clients, including Open AI and Anthropic, for whom we provide third-party red teaming, technical testing and other AI safety services. And we work with the UK government and other international governments on AI safety, including helping set up the AI Security Institute and delivering technical work which catalysed the first global AI