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, and predictive insights during the action.

As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer ,you’llshape the technical strategy and delivery of production ML systems that transform raw sports data and live video into real-time insights and personalised experiences for millions of fans.

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

You’llbe 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 theend-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.

• Integratemodeldriveninsights into personalisation engines, tailoring recommendations based on favourite teams, players, match context, and other signals while ensuring transparency, fairness, and appropriate useof data.

• Define advanced experimental designs, lead A/B testing, develop andmaintainmetrics and dashboards,establishrobustMLOpspractices, and ownend-to-endproductionisationfrom data ingestion through deployment and ongoing model monitoring.

• Design, architect, andoperatelowlatency,highly reliablecloudbasedAI systems for live sports scenarios, ensuring resilient performance during peak traffic, responsible model behaviour in real time, andan optimalbalance between cost, latency, andproductionscaleperformance.

• Proven extensiveleadlevelengineering 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 Pythonexpertisewith strong hands-onuse of ML/DL frameworks (e.g.,PyTorch, Tensor Flow), including taking models from experimentation into production model serving.

• End-to-endMLOpsexperience, including CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking, model registries, drift detection, automated retraining, andinfrastructureascodepractices.

• Proven technical leadership experience including mentoring and guiding Senior andMid-Level Data Scientists both in theirday-to-daywork 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,pivotingas necessary.

• Understanding of sports data, including hands-on experience working with event data, tracking data, or otherhigh-volumesports 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 anda desire to push the sports experience to the next level is a real bonus.

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• 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…