Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Live Sports Insights)

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Join us to rethink how sports are experienced. Our AI-driven platform powers immersive, personalised live sports-giving fans control, fresh perspectives, andpredictive insightsduring the action.

As aPrincipal Machine Learning Engineer, you'll shape the technical strategy and delivery of production ML systems thattransform raw sports data and live video into real-time insights and personalised experiencesfor millions of fans.

For this role we offer the hybrid working approach with 2 days a week onsite in Osterleyoffice.

What" you'll "do:"

You'll "be the technical lead for a critical ML domain (e.g.,"live sports insights and personalisation, real-time ranking, computer vision for multi-angle video, or streaming inference). Expect to influence roadmaps, architecture, and platform evolution-not just single models-while mentoring engineers and data scientists and raising the bar across teams."

• Lead the"end-to-end"development of AI solutions using Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and data science to enable capabilities such as automated sports metadata generation and detection of key events in live content and data streams."
• Generate actionable insights for player performance, contextual statistics, and injury risk by designing models with embedded responsible and ethical AI principles from design through deployment."

• Integrate"model"driven"insights into personalisation engines, tailoring recommendations based on favourite teams, players, match context, and other signals while ensuring transparency, fairness, and" appropriate use "of data."
• Define advanced experimental designs, lead A/B testing, develop and" maintain "metrics and dashboards," establish "robust" MLOps "practices, and own"end-to-end" productionisation "from data ingestion through deployment and ongoing model monitoring."

• Design, architect, and" operate "low"latency," highly reliable " cloud"based "AI systems for live sports scenarios, ensuring resilient performance during peak traffic, responsible model behaviour in real time, and" an optimal "balance between cost, latency, and"production"scale"performance."

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What you'll bring

• Proven extensive"lead"level"engineering experience delivering data-driven ML systems, with clear ownership of technical direction, mentoring, and delivery."
• Working knowledge of modern ML techniques, including Generative AI, and how emergent models can extract insights from multimodal sports data (e.g., numerical, spatial, video, or metadata)."

• Advanced Python" expertise "with strong"hands-on"use of ML/DL frameworks (e.g.," PyTorch , TensorFlow), including taking models from experimentation into production model serving."
• End-to-end" MLOps "experience, including CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking, model registries, drift detection, automated retraining, and"infrastructure"as"code"practices."

• Proven technical leadership experience including mentoring and guiding Senior and"Mid-Level"Data Scientists both in their"day-to-day"work and career development. Experience of working in a fast-changing environment is vital demonstrating adaptability and ability to support the team through times of uncertainty," pivoting "as necessary."

Nice to have

• U nderstanding of sports data, including"hands-on"experience working with event data, tracking data, or other"high-volume"sports datasets, and converting these into actionable analytical or predictive insights.
• Being a Sports Fan - we immerse ourselves in Sport so having a passion for sport an d a desire to push the sports experience to the next level is a real bonus.

The rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to#LifeAtSky: the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate

• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Inclusion & how you'll work
We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office space
Osterley
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.
On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and