Role Overview

Computer Vision Lead will head the vision and multimodal AI charter behind our next-generation sports AI products. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will own the technical direction of our real-time sports understanding stack, set the architecture and research agenda, and build and mentor a high-performing team of Computer Vision and AI Engineers. You will be accountable for taking models from research to reliable, low-latency production systems experienced by millions of fans.

Key Responsibility Areas

1.

Technical

Leadership & Team Building

● Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Computer Vision and multimodal AI across the product portfolio.

● Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Computer Vision and AI Engineers; drive hiring, onboarding, and capability development.

● Set engineering standards for experimentation, code quality, documentation, reproducibility, and model governance.

● Translate product goals into technical milestones, effort estimates, and delivery plans; own execution end to end.

● Make build-vs-buy and architecture trade-off decisions across model, infrastructure, and vendor choices.

- AI Product Development & Language Intelligence

● Define the strategy for AI-powered language products that enhance sports content creation and fan engagement.

● Lead development of automated live commentary systems using Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal AI, and speech technologies.

● Architect intelligent pipelines that fuse vision, audio, and contextual match data into real-time insights and narratives.

● Evaluate and adopt emerging AI architectures to keep product capabilities ahead of the market. 3.

Computer

Vision & Model Development

● Direct the design, training,



and optimization of computer vision models for live sports analytics.

● Guide algorithm development for image and video understanding, including player, ball, and object tracking.

● Set architecture direction across CNNs, Vision Transformers (ViTs), YOLO, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, and vision-language models.

● Oversee object detection, image classification, segmentation, pose estimation, OCR, facial recognition, and event detection workstreams.

● Establish data strategy: annotation pipelines, augmentation, dataset quality, and data engineering best practices.

● Define evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for accuracy, latency, and robustness; drive continuous improvement against them.

- Deployment, Performance Optimization & Production Engineering

● Own the deployment architecture for models across cloud, edge devices, and GPU-enabled environments.

● Architect scalable inference pipelines with high throughput and low latency for real-time applications.

● Drive deployment practices using Docker, ONNX, TensorRT, FastAPI, Kubernetes, and edge GPU platforms.

● Ensure robust integration into production systems through APIs, microservices, and up-to-date software engineering practices.

● Establish monitoring, observability, and MLOps practices for production reliability and cost efficiency.

- Innovation, Collaboration & Research

● Partner with Product, Design, Data Science,



and Software Engineering leadership to shape the product roadmap.

● Lead applied research in Computer Vision, Multimodal AI, Generative AI, and Sports Analytics; identify what is worth productionizing.

● Represent the team in cross-functional and leadership forums; communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

● Champion engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews. Ideal candidate will have:

● 8–12 years of hands-on experience in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or Applied AI, including 2+ years leading or mentoring engineering teams.

● B.E./B.Tech./M.Tech. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Robotics, or a related discipline; PhD is a plus.

● Proven track record of shipping computer vision systems to production at scale, ideally in real-time or low-latency environments.

● Deep fundamentals in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, and Multimodal AI.

● Expertise in Python with strong software engineering and system design skills.

● Deep hands-on experience with PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.

● Strong command of transformer architectures and vision-language models.

● Practical, production-grade experience across:

○ Object Detection

○ Pose Estimation

○ Player & Object Tracking

○ Image Classification

○ Image Segmentation

○ OCR

○ Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)

● Experience with model optimization and deployment (ONNX, TensorRT, quantization, edge GPU) and MLOps tooling.

● Ability to balance research ambition with delivery discipline, and to communicate clearly across technical and business audiences.

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