Latest Defence Jobs

Data Scientist

Designs end-to-end analytical approaches and builds high-quality models for complex client problems within the Applied AI division's Energy, Transition and Environment unit. Owns delivery of scalable, production-grade model components, wraps models and agentic workflows into reliable software, and mentors Level 1 Data Scientists through technical guidance and peer reviews.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Data Scientist

Lead high-impact AI projects for pharma, academic and MedTech clients, defining data science approaches and designing robust software architectures. Mentor a small number of data scientists while partnering with commercial teams on client relationships and project scope. Hands-on Python, NumPy, Pandas and deep-learning work underpins delivery of bespoke algorithms.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Software Engineer, - Defense Tech

Internship on Palantir's defense product vertical, contributing production code to the Gotham platform used by military command centers. Work spans the full product lifecycle, from ideation and prototyping to shipping, on features like geospatial mapping, alert triage and ML-driven planning tools, with a dedicated mentor and small product teams.

Palantir Technologies Washington, United States US$10,500 pm

On-site Internship Clearance Required

Software Engineer - Hosted Model Infrastructure

Own end-to-end services for deploying and serving ML models across air-gapped, edge, and data-sovereign environments with constrained GPUs. Work spans inference engines, GPU scheduling, Kubernetes packaging, deployment pipelines, observability, and debugging across containers and drivers.

Palantir Technologies New York, United States US$145,000 – US$200,000 pa

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Platform Engineer

Builds and maintains the internal delivery platform that supports over 100 data scientists and ML engineers, owning cloud infrastructure, MLOps and deployment tooling. Work spans infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, containerised microservices and multi-cloud integration across AWS, Azure and GCP, with a focus on removing technical friction for delivery teams.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Manager (National Security)

Lead end-to-end delivery of complex AI and data science projects for UK government national security clients, acting as a commercial and delivery lead. Bridge cutting-edge AI research and operational mission needs, build trusted relationships with government partners, and develop proposals and RFP responses to unlock new strategic AI use cases. Mentor multidisciplinary teams while supporting sector strategy and commercial growth.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Technical Director of AI Safety

Lead Faculty's AI safety work for frontier labs, owning technical strategy across alignment, interpretability and robustness, and building a world-class R&D team. You'll design an AI safety R&D programme, oversee red-teaming and evaluations for clients like OpenAI and Anthropic, and represent the company with governments and at global events.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Delivery Manager

Owns end-to-end delivery of high-impact AI projects for clients in professional and financial services, acting as the link between customers and technical teams. Involves scoping, designing AI solutions, managing development, and building senior stakeholder relationships while spotting new commercial opportunities. Part-time hours are open for discussion.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Manager

Oversees a portfolio of Applied AI projects as the senior point of contact for clients and internal teams, managing delivery quality, commercial margins and scope. Combines hands-on delivery leadership with business development, writing proposals and growing accounts, while mentoring cross-functional teams and advising clients on AI strategy.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Lead the technical direction and delivery of complex AI projects, designing scalable ML systems and justifying architectural decisions. Balance deep Python, cloud, and containerisation expertise with mentoring engineers, leading hiring, and coaching clients through high-risk, ill-defined workstreams.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Research Scientist - AI Safety

Conducts original technical research in AI safety, designing experiments to study and steer transformer-based LLM behaviour using white-box and black-box interpretability methods. Builds reproducible Python and PyTorch research code and infrastructure, and communicates findings through papers and reports to frontier labs, government bodies and safety institutes.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Software Engineer

Lead the design, build and deployment of production-grade ML and software systems for clients in life sciences and other sectors. Work spans architectural decisions, scalable cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and acting as a trusted technical advisor to customers while mentoring junior engineers.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Associate

Scoping, building and delivering bespoke AI projects for pharmaceutical clients within a close-knit life sciences team. Involves managing work streams, conducting open-source analysis, translating operational requirements into user stories, and designing user-centric workflows alongside technical teams.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent

Senior Data Scientist (Safety)

Lead high-impact AI safety projects, designing novel evaluation frameworks and robust software architectures for frontier labs and government clients. Mentor technical team members, partner with commercial teams on scoping, and advance the science of AI evaluations through research and public speaking. Requires strong Python and scientific rigour in a high-stakes national security context.

Faculty London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Lead the design, build and deployment of production-grade machine learning systems for defence clients, covering architecture, scalable infrastructure and MLOps standards. Work cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists and commercial teams, and act as a trusted technical advisor to customers while mentoring junior engineers. Requires eligibility for UK Security Clearance and 2-4 days per week on client sites.

Faculty Remote (UK)

Remote Permanent Clearance Required