Faculty
Faculty
Faculty develops frontier AI and machine learning solutions designed to address complex operational challenges across defense, healthcare, financial services, public services, and retail. The company works with organizations to apply advanced AI to areas such as national security, outcome prediction, and process improvement, with an emphasis on practical impact, responsible deployment, and sustainability.

Technical Director, AI Safety – Faculty, London Hybrid

Lead Faculty’s AI safety research, red-teaming, and evaluation programmes while building high-performing R&D teams. Translate advanced research into practical solutions for frontier laboratories, security institutes, and governments.

Description

  • Set the AI Safety technical strategy, define research priorities, and develop risk-mitigation technologies
  • Build and lead a high-performing R&D team through recruitment, mentoring, and technical-culture development
  • Direct complex machine learning programmes and support publication in leading venues
  • Develop AI safety offerings for frontier laboratories and security institutes
  • Oversee delivery of AI safety and security projects, evaluations, and red-team exercises
  • Represent Faculty through technical thought leadership and major international industry events
  • Work with business unit leaders and commercial teams on research investment and client requirements

Requirements

  • Demonstrated success designing and leading high-performing technical teams
  • Experience managing R&D budgets and mentoring senior technical professionals
  • Deep AI safety research expertise spanning alignment, interpretability, and LLM or safety-critical-system robustness
  • Strong scientific record, including influential machine learning publications
  • Thorough knowledge of transformer architectures
  • Ability to establish research priorities that support long-term organisational objectives
  • Skill in explaining complex technical ideas to C-suite leaders and research audiences
  • Strong commercial judgement and stakeholder-management capability

Benefits

  • The opportunity to recruit and develop a world-class AI safety technical team
  • The opportunity to create and lead an AI safety R&D programme
  • The opportunity to deliver work with frontier laboratories at scale
  • The opportunity to influence the international conversation about AI safety
  • Part-time working arrangements are open for discussion
  • A diverse and inclusive recruitment environment
  • Every application is reviewed by a person
  • An AI note-taker is used in interviews, with an opt-out option available

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