Lead Data Scientist

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

Core

Lead Data Scientist setting technical direction and delivering high-impact, production-grade AI solutions for the Defence sector.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Data Scientist (Defence)

Builds

Human-centric AI solutions for high-stakes defence scenarios

Domain

Defence / Security / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning domain expertise, technical leadership, project management, risk management, customer leadership, cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning

Preferred skills

Mentoring teams, defining technical standards, managing ill-defined high-risk tasks

Technologies

(Not specified) (via careerplan.io/jobs/92c892cd-1f6c-443d-9cd8-e4902f9b7fb6-lead-data-scientist-at-faculty)

Responsibilities

Setting technical direction for complex projects, designing production-grade solutions, defining project roadmaps, leading technical scoping for sales opportunities, managing client relationships, driving adoption of best practices, mentoring data scientists

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