Applied AI and AI safety
Faculty
Builds AI systems for governments and businesses, safety-tests new models for the leading AI labs, and makes Frontier, software for big decisions. Part of Accenture since March 2026.
- Based in London and Copenhagen
- 400+ people
- Founded 2014
- 96 open roles
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“Faculty has spent 12 years putting AI to work where the stakes are high: the NHS, defense, drug trials, and safety tests for OpenAI and Anthropic. Accenture bought it this year, so it now has Accenture’s reach behind it. Most roles mix deep technical work with time in front of clients.”
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Revenue tripled in the three years before Accenture bought it
Revenue in each year to March, from its accounts, converted from pounds at the rate on the last day of each year.
It made a pre-tax loss of about $5M in the year to March 2025, down from about $10M two years before.
Since March 2026 it has been owned by Accenture, which had $74B in revenue in its last financial year.
Accenture bought Faculty in a deal reported at about $1B
AccentureAccenture agreed the deal in January 2026 and completed it in March. It didn’t disclose the price.
Accenture has about 814,000 people and serves about 9,000 clients.
Before the sale, Faculty had raised about $54M from investors since 2016.
Marc has said a 400-person company can easily get squished inside one this size, and that staff are excited by the bigger projects it brings.
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MercuriThe team more than doubled to over 400 people in four years
Average staff in each year to March, from its accounts, then the figure Accenture gave when it agreed the deal. About 100 people from Halfspace in Copenhagen joined Faculty in June 2026, and its new Australian business aims to grow past 100.
Key leaders
Marc WarnerCofounder and CEO, also Accenture’s CTO
Harvard University
Andrew BrookesCofounder and CTO
BlackRock
Angie MaCofounder, started the Fellowship
John GibsonChief commercial officer
Prime Minister’s Policy Unit
Patrick ImbachCFO, joined 2024
CallsignMarc and Angie, both physics PhDs from UCL, started Faculty with Andrew in 2014. Marc joined Accenture’s global management committee when the deal closed.
Technical roles that work closely with clients
Teams. Organized by sector, from defense and national security to public services, life sciences, retail and finance. Accenture calls the team PhD-heavy.
The work. Engineers and data scientists advise clients as well as build. Engineering interviews include pair programming, system design and a commercial round.
Where. Hybrid, from its Old Street office in London or elsewhere in the UK. Defense roles need UK security clearance and two to four days a week on client sites.
Learning. Its Fellowship has trained 550 STEM graduates for AI careers since 2014, and Accenture plans to take it worldwide.
Applying. Open to part-time hours. A person reads every application, and it asks candidates not to use AI to answer in live interviews.
Leading AI labs use it to safety-test new models
OpenAIRed-teamed its o1 model before launch.
NHS EnglandIts Covid early warning system forecast hospital demand three weeks ahead, with over 1,000 daily users.
NovartisUses Frontier to simulate and plan its clinical trials.Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta also cite its safety testing. It has worked with more than 350 customers and built more than 400 AI systems.
What people tell Jack
“Faculty has the scrappiness of a startup with the structure and processes of a more established company, which is important for innovating in regulated industries.”
Open roles
Faculty has 96 open roles on its careers page. 90 list the UK and 6 list Australia. Pick a place and a team to see the roles and Jack’s read.
Jack’s read for engineering and machine learning
42 open roles
- CTO Andrew Brookes leads the technical teams and built the core of Frontier.
- Engineers lead technical scoping and advise clients directly. Defense roles need UK security clearance and time on client sites.
What these roles pay and who gets hired, from our hiring guides
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Jack’s read for data science and AI safety research
17 open roles
- It red-teamed OpenAI’s o1 before launch and helped design biosecurity tests for Anthropic’s Claude 4 models.
- Since the Accenture deal it is investing to take its AI safety work worldwide, and is hiring a technical director of AI safety to lead it.
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Jack’s read for delivery, product and design
20 open roles
- 400+ AI systems built for clients around the world.
- Frontier added a plug-in marketplace in April and a studio for clinical trial teams in June.
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Jack’s read for sales and client leadership
12 open roles
- 20x growth in revenue since chief commercial officer John Gibson joined in 2017.
- 350+ customers so far, across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences and defense.
- Accenture plans to bring its expertise to Accenture’s 9,000 clients.
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Jack’s read for finance, people and communications
3 open roles
- CFO Patrick Imbach runs finance, legal, business intelligence and information security.
- New teams in Copenhagen, from Halfspace, and in Australia, where it aims to grow past 100 people.
More new roles in October than in July to September
New roles each week worldwide, July to October 2026, from our daily checks of its careers page.
Closed roles60 since June
The most recent, as of November 5, 2026.
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About this page
Jack & Jill isn’t Faculty’s recruiter. The open roles come straight from Faculty’s public careers page and refresh through the day. Company facts come from Faculty’s own announcements and named press, linked on each card, and were last checked on November 6, 2026. Jack’s take is Jack & Jill’s own.