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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

The City, Central London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-09 → 2026-08-06

Core

Designing and delivering large-scale production ML systems for real-time sports insights, personalization, and live event detection using computer vision and generative AI.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Sports AI & Personalisation)

Builds

Next-generation AI-driven sports platforms serving millions of fans with real-time insights and personalized viewing experiences.

Domain

Sports media, live streaming, and real-time data environments.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technical leadership, Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, productionizing ML at scale, streaming architectures, low-latency systems, MLOps, computer vision, multimodal AI

Preferred skills

Experience in sports data and analytics

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, cloud-native platforms

Responsibilities

Shaping architecture and strategy for large-scale production ML systems, solving complex real-time engineering challenges, mentoring technical teams, building scalable cloud-native AI platforms

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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