Faculty expands to Australia in next phase of global growth

Faculty is rapidly building a local team of leading AI practitioners as well as bringing its highly acclaimed AI talent programme to Australia - The Fellowship - creating a pathway for exceptional STEM graduates to transition into AI careers. 

The inaugural Fellowship is being launched in partnership with the Western Australian Government, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers (WesCEF) and Accenture. The first cohort of Fellows will be embedded in these and other organisations to solve hard problems with frontier AI.

Fellows are taught by leading AI practitioners and are plugged directly into Europe's leading applied AI company, gaining instant access to the sum learnings gained in the design and build of 400+ bespoke AI systems across the world.

Alongside the Fellowship, Faculty is rapidly scaling its local AI delivery team as it builds a substantive regional presence, to help Australia’s most ambitious organisations build and deploy AI into the core of their operations. Faculty’s Australia team will draw on a decade of experience in deploying AI into the highest-stakes settings, including through its work with leading labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI. 

Faculty’s Australia office is being led by entrepreneur Rohan Silva, Chair of Factory Founders Australia and former Senior Policy Adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Hon. Paul Papalia, Minister for Defence Industry, Western Australian Government, said:

“The Western Australian Government is proud to support the launch of the Faculty Fellowship in Western Australia. This is a landmark partnership that brings a globally acclaimed program to Australia for the first time.

Faculty Fellowship represents a significant investment in local skills and capability, ensuring our top STEM graduates can build world-class expertise here in Western Australia.

By creating clear pathways between education and industry, we are helping retain our best technical minds while strengthening sovereign capability across priority sectors.

This Fellowship will play a key role in building a highly skilled, future-ready workforce to drive innovation, productivity, and long-term economic growth for Western Australia.”

Aaron Hood, Managing Director, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers, said:

“Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers has been a leading manufacturer in Western Australia for decades, and we've achieved that by continually improving the way we operate and embracing new opportunities.

AI is the next wave of that improvement and it's already helping us run safer, smarter and more efficient operations at our industrial sites in Western Australia.

The Fellows won't be working on theoretical problems at WesCEF – they'll be applying their expertise to real industrial challenges that support our operations and the growth of manufacturing in Western Australia.

We're proud to work alongside Faculty and the WA Government to help Western Australia remain at the forefront of industrial innovation and AI adoption.”

Dr. Angie Ma, Co-Founder of Faculty, said: 

“The next frontier in AI is access to exceptional talent -  people who combine deep technical mastery with scientific rigour and sharp commercial instincts.

Australia’s universities are producing outstanding STEM graduates, and its public and private sectors face exactly the kind of hard, high-stakes problems that need great AI practitioners.

We are starting work on important AI projects across Australia, and are excited about the opportunity ahead of us. 

Faculty’s expansion to Australia marks an important new phase in our global growth. We’re building the global talent engine for the age of AI.”