Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

Junior Computer Vision Engineer for Automated Content 

Interested in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and other modern technologies? Then the Automated Content team within Sportradar is the right fit for you. We are enhancing the sports experience for fans, athletes, and teams across the globe through world-class AI solutions and are committed to advancing the state of the art of Sport through continuous innovation with a specialized and distributed team focused on research and development in areas such as computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, data science and beyond. We are on a mission to automate sports content creation - the data and video – that feeds products and services we deliver to our partners. The possibilities to revolutionize the world of sport are vast, and we are only at the beginning of our journey. 

Our cutting-edge technologies will revolutionize the way individuals interact with and participate in sports. Our objective is to create innovative hardware and software solutions leading to automated viewing experiences, real-time statistics, and event forecasting. By doing so, we are enhancing the lives of coaches, athletes, and fans by developing products that cater to their evolving needs and requirements, as well as enabling an experience where people can engage with sport in new and meaningful ways. 

We seek a talented Computer Vision Engineer to join our team: a diverse, highly skilled, and enthusiastic team on the mission to reinvent the world of sports. 

THE ROLE: 

We are looking for a Junior Computer Vision Engineer to reinforce our talented and enthusiastic Computer Vision (CV) Team, to obaining deep-data from videos of sports. This dynamic team, composed of both remote and headquarters-based experts, works on challenging subjects such as player and ball tracking, segmentation, re-identification, 3D localization, event detection, etc. 

Your role will be to research, design, implement, compare, integrate and optimize CV solutions to leverage the power of sports data for millions of sports enthusiasts. 

Join the #1 sport’s data company to tackle real-world challenges, and help us change the way sport is consumed. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Research, design, implement, compare, integrate and optimize state-of-the-art CV/ML algorithms for our existing and upcoming products
• Use CV/ML to automate and simplify the day-to-day work of manual operators 
• Share knowledge within the team, sometimes located across multiple (European) countries 
• Stay up-to-date and apply state-of-the-art CV methods
• Find an optimal solution in term of accuracy, considering real-time constraints 
• Collaborating with a talented team composed of both remote and headquarters-based experts 
• Integrate research into real-world products 
• Write clean, scalable, optimized, documented, and understandable code 
• Build reusable code libraries, when those are required 

YOUR PROFILE: 

• Theoretical and practical (at least 1 year) knowledge of Computer Vision and Machine Learning (e.g. multi-objects tracking, segmentation, event detection, 3D estimation, etc.) 
• Experience with PyTorch 
• Solid programming skills with Python and its underlying data-science libraries 
• Excellent communication skills in English and ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts. 
• Comfortable with modern software development methodologies such as agile development, git, code review, etc. 
• Rigorous, team player, with a positive mindset 
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills 
• Be creative and innovation focused 

OUR OFFER:  

• The possibility to help shape the future of Sportradar
• All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
• The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company
• The opportunity to grow your skills (German and English courses, Sportradar eAcademy, Engineering workshops, Code Retreats, Randori styled Coding Kata)
• Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through a high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development path 
• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US) 
• A company culture that promotes social aspects, sports, physical exercise and fun
• Innovative and cross-team challenges, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis, Tennis and others
• Sportradar takes over the full costs of € 365.- for the Öffi-Ticket (Jahreskarte) for you
• A hybrid working model and the possibility to work from a home office when needed 

The minimum monthly salary for this position is according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, overpayment will be considered depending on qualifications and working experience.

Buckle up, hold on tight and get ready for an incredible adrenaline-rush throughout this exciting ride with us: #maketheteam and shape your future as well as ours!

Additional Information

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences