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Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist — Sports Modeling & Live Betting

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Designing and deploying real-time probabilistic models for live sports betting markets across football, basketball, baseball, soccer, and hockey.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (sports modeling & live betting)

Builds

Live betting markets, odds, and pricing logic for in-game events

Domain

Sports betting, real-time data systems, quantitative modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied data science, machine learning, Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost), probability & statistics, regression, classification, calibration, simulation, model evaluation, messy real-world data handling, production code reasoning, business impact modeling, sports domain knowledge

Preferred skills

Sports betting/odds modeling experience, live sports data/play-by-play expertise, real-time system workflows, team leadership

Technologies

Python, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost

Responsibilities

Design targets, features, and model structures for live betting markets; ensure data quality and label correctness; calibrate models and handle edge cases; collaborate with engineering and trading to define production logic; measure post-launch commercial performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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