Stats Perform is seeking a Data Scientist to research and implement innovative machine learning techniques on sports data across soccer and tennis. The role involves productizing models, presenting solutions to internal teams, and mentoring colleagues on best practices. Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch is required.
Responsibilities
Researching, developing, and implementing innovative machine learning techniques to Stats Perform's wealth of sports data, across various sports, such as soccer and tennis.
Productizing your models alongside engineers and product teams, in a quick and efficient way.
Presenting your solutions to other internal teams, broadening AI proficiency in the company.
Providing technical guidance to various teams on the artificial intelligence approaches that our team uses.
Identify new AI solutions for emerging problems, create requirements and propose an outline a roadmap for delivering the project.
Support, train and mentor team members on best machine learning implementation practices.
Requirements
Master's or PhD in data science, computer science, mathematics, statistics or related STEM fields.
3+ years of experience working as a data scientist (or similar role).
Expert proficiency of Python and experience using SQL, alongside using common ML/AI packages (TensorFlow, PyTorch, XGBoost, etc.).
Familiarity with statistical (e.g. GLM, GAMs) and deep learning techniques (e.g. neural networks, transformers, diffusion models, etc.).
Comfortable designing and creating neural network architectures, tree-based methods and applying upcoming technologies from scratch.
Experience deploying models in cloud environments (such as AWS/Google Cloud), making models production-ready and integrating them in end-to-end cloud pipelines.
Fluency in English; excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Nice to Have
Experience with sports event and/or tracking data and deep interest in sports, in particular soccer and tennis.
Knowledge of the sports analytics landscape and latest research.
Tech Stack
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowAWSSQLXGBoostGoogle Cloud
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