Computer Vision Engineer Outside IR35

Overview

Contract Computer Vision Engineer – Sports Broadcasting

Contract:

6 months

Location:

London / Hybrid

Rate:
Up to £800 per day

• Design, build, and improve computer vision pipelines operating on sports broadcast video
• Develop models for tasks such as object detection, tracking, event recognition, or temporal analysis
• Work with broadcast-quality footage, including multiple camera angles, replays, overlays, and compression artefacts
• Handle common broadcast challenges such as replays, inconsistent framing, occlusions, and missing context
• Ensure extracted outputs are accurate, consistent, and production-ready
• Collaborate closely with engineers and domain specialists to align on definitions and edge cases
• Contribute pragmatically in a contract environment, owning delivery end to end

• Strong commercial experience as a Computer Vision Engineer
• Hands-on experience working with sports broadcast video (live or recorded)
• Solid Python experience and common CV libraries / frameworks
• Experience deploying CV models into real production systems
• Comfortable working with noisy, imperfect, real-world data
• Able to work independently and deliver within tight timelines

• Experience with video pipelines or streaming systems
• Exposure to real-time or near-real-time CV workloads
• Experience working alongside data or analytics teams