# Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Faculty
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Faculty is looking for a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer to spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects.

As a Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable.

The role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation.

Responsibilities:

- Setting the technical direction for complex ML projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities.

- Designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems and justifying key architectural decisions.

- Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple work-streams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments.

- Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.

- Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.

- Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.

- Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.

Requirements:

- You are a technical expert among your peers, capable of going deep on particular topics and demonstrating breadth of knowledge to solve almost any problem.

- You possess strong Python skills and practical experience operationalising models using frameworks like Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.

- You are an expert in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS) and have led teams to build full-stack web applications.

- You have hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.

- You can successfully manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team-wide development goals to improve client delivery.

- You find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes.

- You're an excellent communicator who can proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits:

- Opportunities for career growth and professional development

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

- Flexible working arrangements

Interview Process:

- Talent Team Screen (30 minutes)

- Introduction to the role (45 minutes)

- Pair Programming Interview (90 minutes)

- System Design Interview (90 minutes)

- Commercial & Leadership Interview (60 minutes)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Scikit-learn
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Azure
- GCP
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes

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